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The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the National Assembly are currently after the Acting Chairman of the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu.
While the Nigerian Senate wants the Presidency to relinquish Mr. Magu off his position, the governors said Mr. Magu is moving beyond his seat over London-paris club loan refund.
Magu, is looking for whom to make a scapegoat in his travails with the National Assembly, the governors said Iin a recent statement.
The NGF declared that this was responsible for Magu’s persistent accusation of the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of diverting part of the London-Paris Club loan refund.
Also, Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, said the onslaught on Yari by the EFCC was a direct attack on all the 36 state governors.
The EFCC has already gone to court to seek forfeiture of the money believed to have been looted from the loan refunds.
But NGF and Fayose advised Magu to face his job and leave governor Yari alone.
NGF, in a statement yesterday by its head of media and public affairs, Abdulrazque Barkindo, said Yari had consistently denied any links with a $3 million hotel in Lagos which some media attributed to him, and for which the governor has sued the publications for libel.
“But for want of scapegoats in its battle against the National Assembly, the EFCC continues to drag the governor’s name in the mud in a veiled effort to divert attention from the matters of the moment,” Barkindo added.
While the Nigerian Senate wants the Presidency to relinquish Mr. Magu off his position, the governors said Mr. Magu is moving beyond his seat over London-paris club loan refund.
Magu, is looking for whom to make a scapegoat in his travails with the National Assembly, the governors said Iin a recent statement.
The NGF declared that this was responsible for Magu’s persistent accusation of the Chairman of the Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of diverting part of the London-Paris Club loan refund.
Also, Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, said the onslaught on Yari by the EFCC was a direct attack on all the 36 state governors.
The EFCC has already gone to court to seek forfeiture of the money believed to have been looted from the loan refunds.
But NGF and Fayose advised Magu to face his job and leave governor Yari alone.
NGF, in a statement yesterday by its head of media and public affairs, Abdulrazque Barkindo, said Yari had consistently denied any links with a $3 million hotel in Lagos which some media attributed to him, and for which the governor has sued the publications for libel.
“But for want of scapegoats in its battle against the National Assembly, the EFCC continues to drag the governor’s name in the mud in a veiled effort to divert attention from the matters of the moment,” Barkindo added.
