We must not allow it – Peter Obi reacts to EFCC freezing Osun govt account

The Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, statesmanlike candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has expressed interest implicit the reported freezing of the Osun State Government’s slope accounts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, informing against actions that could undermine the credibility of the forthcoming governorship election.

Obi, successful a station connected X connected Thursday, said though helium has consistently supported the combat against corruption, anti-graft efforts indispensable not beryllium utilized arsenic instruments of governmental intimidation oregon to suppress democracy.

He argued that nary institution, careless of its importance, should enactment successful a mode that creates the content of influencing the electoral process.

The erstwhile Anambra State politician questioned the timing of the EFCC’s action, noting that if investigations had been ongoing for months, it was indispensable to explicate wherefore the accounts were frozen conscionable days earlier the governorship election.

According to him, antiauthoritarian institutions indispensable not lone beryllium impartial but indispensable besides beryllium seen to beryllium impartial.

Obi besides expressed interest implicit what helium described arsenic the increasing cognition that authorities institutions are being deployed t...