By Samuel Oyejola
Opposition People’s Democratic Party has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC of working out the script of the ruling APC following the arrest and detention of former Governor of Kaduna State, Muktar Yero.
The former governor was on Wednesday detained by the EFCC at the commission’s Kaduna Zonal Office.
The spokesman of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan in a press statement available to Time Nigeria also accused members of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, PACC of making comments and actions that escalate media trials and other irregularities in the handling of corruption cases.
He warned that “the reckless abuse of the provision of the law by the APC is a clear recipe for civil unrest in our nation, if it does not stop.
“The PDP particularly rejects the emerging trends by the EFCC wherein accused persons and individuals who are still under investigation on alleged corruption charges are paraded and forced to hang criminal tags, as meted out to former Kaduna State Governor Muktar Yero even when such persons have not been convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction.”
He described the actions of the EFCC as an act of desperation and insisted that it can no longer stomach the hijacking of the duties of the judiciary by agencies of the executives under the instructions of the Presidency.
“Nigeria will recall that the PDP had earlier raised the alarm over this unrelenting assault, harassment and persecution of opposition members under the guise of fight against corruption.”
The opposing charged that the fight against corruption must be prosecuted within the ambits of the provisions of the law and not as an instrument of persecution and clampdown against the opposition.