Emerging reports, indicate that sources within the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, that are sympathetic to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have leaked an alleged plot to re-arrest and incarcerate a former Aviation Minister and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.
Fani-Kayode, revealed that the information was leaked to him, by his sources within the anti-graft agency.
Fani-Kayode, who stated this in a statement in Abuja, on Thursday, October 20, disclosed that despite the fact that he had been granted bail by the court, the Commission was planning to re-arrest him, and detain him for a very long time.
He said, “I have been reliably informed by my sources within the EFCC, that they are planning to re-arrest and detain me, for as long as possible once again, even though I have been granted bail by the Federal High Court in Lagos.“Fresh charges were filed against me by the EFCC, at the Federal High Court, in Abuja, on July 7. The allegations border on a baseless allegation, and false claim that I received N26 million Naira from the NSA’s office, in 2014.
“These are politically-motivated charges, and there is no truth in, or substance to them whatsoever.”
Fani-Kayode, added that, the case had been assigned to a Judge, and the date for arraignment had been set for November 10, before Justice John Tsoho, of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
He however, said his lawyers were in court on October 14, the date initially chosen for his arraignment, and that it was the EFCC that did not show up on that day.
He said, “The matter was therefore adjourned till November 10, and my Lawyers have given an undertaking to the Judge, to ensure that I am in court on that day.“They have also written to the EFCC to that effect, and our letter was acknowledged by them”.
He accused the EFCC of being a willing and able tool, in the hands of those he described as hawks and hardliners in the Buhari administration, who he said might be acting on superior orders as well.
He said the Commission was desperate to keep him out of circulation, and off the streets, adding that, he had been reliably informed of what the anti-graft agency was asked to do by the Presidency.
Apart from him, he said that the EFCC was also planning to arrest his wife, and his eight-months old son, just to hurt and spite him, even though they had done nothing wrong.
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