Ex-lawmaker urges EFCC to reopen Atiku’s alleged financial crimes case

A erstwhile subordinate of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ehiozuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, has approached the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to request a renewed probe and imaginable prosecution of erstwhile Vice-President Atiku Abubakar implicit alleged fiscal crimes dating backmost to 2006.

Agbonayinma said the committee had acknowledged his petition, submitted connected August 27, 2026, and received connected September 1. The petition was filed done his lawyer, Chief Hannibal Egbe Uwaifo, SAN.

He aboriginal visited the EFCC office successful Jabi, Abuja, to formally affirm the petition and reply questions from the commission’s investigators.

The erstwhile lawmaker urged the anti-graft bureau to revisit its erstwhile findings connected the allegations, alongside a study published by a United States Senate subcommittee successful 2010.

Speaking aft his appearance, Agbonayinma maintained that the substance required further action, arguing that nationalist officials should beryllium taxable to the aforesaid laws arsenic different citizens.

He said, “The laws are meant for some the affluent and the poor,” adding that the result of the EFCC’s earlier probe should not beryllium concealed.

The petition speci...