Investigations revealed that the leadership of the commission decided to declare Nyako wanted after he failed to honour the commission’s invitations after his removal from office.
It was further gathered that Nyako has evaded arrest as operatives detailed to arrest him after his removal from office by the House of Assembly has not sighted him since then.
Nyako is said to have fled the country to the US.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, told one of our correspondents in a telephone interview in Abuja, on Tuesday that the commission took the decision to declare Nyako wanted because he had been elusive.
“Since Nyako, was removed, he has been elusive. So the commission has devised a strategy to declare him wanted.
“The commission is planning to declare him wanted,” Uwujaren said.
In response, Nyako said he was not surprised neither was he disturbed about the decision to hound him because he would not be the first person to be so hounded by men in power.
He expressed confidence that posterity will judge his administration kindly.
Nyako, who spoke through his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmad Sajoh, said this in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja.
He said “They (the then government of the day) set up General Olusegun Obasanjo, accused him of a coup, jailed him unjustifiably and he later came out of prison to become President; they orchestrated the impeachment of Ayo Fayose, today they have returned him as governor elect.
“We have no fears. They harassed former Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido; today he is the Emir of Kano. So, if what they are doing has Allah’s support, he would not elevate the people being humiliated. There is judgment of history, there is judgment of God. Today they are at the helm of affairs; it does not mean they will be at the helm of affairs tomorrow. They should also await Allah’s judgment.”
In a related development, Nyako’s deputy, Mr. Bala Ngilari was grilled for about three hours by operatives of the EFCC at the headquarters of the commission on Tuesday.
The Deputy Governor arrived the commission at 10:00 am and was allowed to go after 1.00pm.
A highly placed source at the commission said, “The former deputy governor was here. He responded to our invitation, he interacted with operatives for some hours. He came around 10am and left 1pm.”
It was further gathered that the leadership of the commission had taken a decision to defreeze one of several accounts operated by the Adamawa State Government to enable the state pay outstanding salaries owed civil servants.
It was learnt that the commission had not lifted the freeze order on the other accounts because they were still being investigated.
“One of the state government accounts, the salary accounts, has been de-frozen.
“The other ones have not been lifted because they are part of the investigation. This one was released so that the government could pay salaries; you know you cannot cripple the business of government,” the source said.
This group called the EFCC needs to stop wasting our time. They need to be disbanded since they no longer serve a useful purpose except harrassing select individuals. What happened to the case of Orji Uzor Kalu and the rest that were charged ten years ago?.
ReplyDeleteNyako is running from his own. Shadow and like Ibori he risks arrest in Europe or US.
ReplyDeleteNyako signed his political demise when he unashamedly authored that his obnoxious missive to the nineteen northern governors in which he made stupid, inciteful and baseless accusations against the president. An intelligent and astute general should have looked carefully at his rear flanks before embarking on such a dangerous battle with the nations commander in chief! Just one shot and there flees our man abandoning his men!
ReplyDeletePolitics inside corruption =E F C C
ReplyDeleteO boy come out, why are you hiding? since u dey make out. You see say power pass power.
ReplyDeleteGod help my beloved nation NIGERIA
ReplyDeleteHe who fight and run away live to fight another day,Murtala Nyako shall return a better and a greater person some day while the “power drunk“ (gej) will surely fall woefully in no longer time from now.
ReplyDeleteAPC is contaminated with likes of Nyako. One by one, the evil doers that now dominated APC will find themselves trapped beyond safety. Their defectioon from PDP is a way of cleaning up PDP ahead of 2015.
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