Bala Mohammed, Bauchi
governor-elect, says he has done nothing wrong and is ready to face the law.
Mohammed said this on Monday
while speaking with journalists after he was to be arraigned by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The anti-graft agency filed fresh
charges against him bordering on false declaration of assets and “giving false
information to the EFCC.”
Halilu Yusuf, the judge handling
the case, was absent. Mohammed is also accused of receiving N1.6 billion in
bribes for land allocation while he was FCT minister.
However, the governor-elect said
out of mischief, some people were presenting the case as a new one.
“I was brought to court this
morning, fortunately or unfortunately the Judge was not there and it is a
continuation of my case but out of mischief and treachery it was misrepresented
as if it is a new case,” he said.
“This is a case that has been on
and I don’t want to say anything that will preempt the outcome of the process
so I will leave it at that, that it is the whole case that we are on with the
EFCC and after winning my election, they still took me to court.
“I know my lawyers are trying to
determine my status whether as a governor who has been duly elected by the
people, as a governor who has been returned by the institution recognized by
the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that is INEC is eligible
to be taken to court at this moment.
“I believe in the rule of law and
I believe in the constitution and in the right of institutions to carry out
their statutory duties, so I was in court and of course the thing has been
postponed to another time and I will be there any time I am asked even if I am
in government.
“If my immunity has been severed
from me I am ready to face the law because I know that at the cost of
preempting the outcome of the court, I have not done anything and because my
people have spoken.”
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