We are Behind Your EFCC Scandal, Not Tinubu, PDP Tells Saraki
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Contrary to accusation by Senator Joseph Waku, an All
progressives Congress member and pro-Saraki senator, that the national
leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is fingered as mastermind
of the the Economic and Financial Crime Commission’s ordeal of the the
wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Toyin Saraki; The Peoples
Democratic Party has debunked claims that the ruling All Progressives
Congress and its national leaders, Bola Tinubu are responsible ro Saraki's ordeals.
Joseph Waku, a chieftain of the APC, had also on Saturday
accused Tinubu of masterminding a “baseless petition” that led to the
invitation of Mrs. Saraki by the EFCC, a charge the former Lagos
governor stoutly denied.
But in a statement Sunday, the Kwara state chapter of the
PDP said it was a petition it (PDP) submitted to the EFCC that got Mrs.
Saraki into trouble. “It has become imperative to inform the members of
the public that we have every reasons to believe that a petition
recently submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara state chapter is
largely responsible for the invitation and eventual criminal prosecution
of the former Kwara First Lady and wife of the Senate President, Mrs.
Toyin Saraki,” the party said in a statement by its spokesperson, Rex
Olawoye.
The PDP added, “It will be recalled that our party had
sometime early this year discreetly submitted a petition to the EFCC
detailing how certain individuals in high places under the past
administration of Dr. Bukola Saraki milked the state dry and left the
people more impoverished than they met them.
“In the said petition, we carefully chronicled how state
officials, including former First Lady, Toyin Saraki, former Special
Adviser to the Governor on MDGs, Mr. Ope Saraki, Personal Assistant (PA)
to ex-Governor Bukola Saraki, one Mr. Abdul Adama from Kogi state, a
former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Tunji Morounfoye, all working
in a ring, got enmeshed in a cesspool of corruption unprecedented in the
history of Kwara state or any other state of the federal for that
matter.
“Although, we believe that the arrest and prosecution of
Mrs. Toyin Saraki is long overdue, we nevertheless take solace under the
fact that the long arm of the law seems to have finally caught up with
her and her cronies.
We are particularly delighted that our painstaking efforts
at chronicling the monumental heist that defined the eight years, almost
uneventful rule of former Governor Bukola Saraki in Kwara, has not gone
unnoticed.
“We therefore commend the EFCC for its resourcefulness and
painstakingness. We pledge our cooperation with the EFCC and all other
relevant anti-graft agencies to ensure that all those who knowingly
looted our collective patrimony, but now walking the streets of Kwara
free with their ill-gotten wealth, do not go unpunished.
“We urge the anti-graft agency not to buckle in to pressure
or blackmail that is already being mounted by political jobbers over
Mrs. Saraki’s invitation by the EFCC. Instead of sponsoring paid
activist-for-hire to stampede the EFCC out of the prosecution, one would
have thought that the most moral thing for Toyin Saraki and her
handlers to do now is to allow the law to take its cause. Since the duo
of Ope Saraki and Tunji Morounfoye are already standing trial for their
crimes, one would expect Mrs. Saraki too to seize the moment and clear
her name, instead of playing to the gallery.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate that the offences
Mrs. Saraki is being accused of are criminal in nature and such
offences are not known to be statute-barred. Therefore, the fact that it
took over five years after Mrs. Saraki left office as Kwara First Lady
before she is eventually brought before the law does not matter.
“What matters is that justice is ultimately served,
especially for the sake of the hard-working Kwara civil servants, poor
Kwara farmers and the promising children of Kwara who were and are still
being subjected to all manners of deprivations as a result of the
rapaciousness of a privileged few who could not contain the temptations
to stare clear the cookie jar.”
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