ADC questions Tinubu’s claim on EFCC’s freezing of Osun accounts

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has questioned President Bola Tinubu’s assertion that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acted connected a tribunal bid erstwhile it froze the Osun State Government’s slope accounts.

In a connection connected Thursday signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the enactment welcomed the President’s determination to bid the EFCC to reverse the enactment but asked, “Which tribunal bid did you nonstop EFCC to vacate?”

The ADC said the EFCC had ne'er mentioned immoderate tribunal bid portion defending its decision. Instead, the committee said it acted nether its ineligible powers and its “preventive mandate”.

The enactment said, “It is either the President was misinformed oregon helium had chosen to misrepresent the facts. Either anticipation is profoundly disturbing.”

The ADC besides argued that the President’s admittance that helium directed the EFCC to retreat the lawsuit contradicted claims that anti-corruption agencies run independently.

It said, “If the President possesses the authorization to nonstop the EFCC to retreat from tribunal proceedings due to the fact that the governmental consequences whitethorn impact an election, past it follows that helium possesses the authorization to nonstop the Commission successful different operational matters arsenic well.”

The absorption enactment further described the President’s personally signed connection arsenic unusual, saying it raised ...