Breaking: EFCC breaks silence on chairman secretly 'meeting mystery Nigerian governor'

• The EFCC has opened up aft Paul Ibe, spokesperson to Atiku Abubakar, made a beardown allegation against the anti-graft bureau chairman
• Ibe, connected Thursday, May 22, alleged that EFCC brag Ola Olukoyede held a concealed gathering with an unnamed politician
• According to Ibe, the ruling enactment is utilizing EFCC and Olukoyede to unit past governors and existent governors to dump the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)

FCT, Abuja - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) connected Friday, May 23, said it is "outraged" by the "unfounded claims" of Paul Ibe, spokesperson to Atiku Abubakar, erstwhile Vice President.

Legit.ng reports that Ibe had alleged that Ola Olukoyede, EFCC chairman, held a concealed gathering with an unnamed politician.

After Atiku's campy allegation, EFCC denies its president secretly met caller APC governor. Photo credits: @atiku, @officialEFCC
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Ibe, who was a impermanent connected Channels Television's 'Politics Today' connected Thursday, May 22, 2025, bared his caput connected issues relating to absorption authorities and defections.

However, the Nigerian anti-graft bureau stated that Ibe's allegations of Olukoyede and Mrs. Beatrice Jedy-Agba, the solicitor-general of the federation’s alleged gathering with an unnamed politician 48 hours earlier his defection to the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) "are patently fabricated and successful atrocious taste".

The EFCC said Olukoyede has stressed astatine respective fora that helium is apolitical and the bureau is "totally wired against partisan tendencies."

The EFCC, therefore, asked Nigerians to disregard the alleged gathering with the unnamed politician "as it lone exists successful the imaginativeness of Ibe."

EFCC: Court reserves ruling connected Fayose’s submission

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the national precocious tribunal successful Lagos reserved ruling connected the no-case submission filed by Ayodele Fayose, a salient erstwhile politician of Ekiti state.

The tribunal took action successful Fayose's trial implicit alleged money laundering and theft totalling N6.9 billion.

At the latest trial, the justice reserved his determination (on the no-case submission by Fayose) aft proceeding arguments from Kanu Agabi (SAN), counsel to Fayose (first defendant); Olalekan Ojo (SAN), representing the 2nd suspect (Spotless Investment Limited) and Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the EFCC's lawyer.

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Source: Legit.ng