Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman
of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) says the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will not act on the petition
demanding probe of bullion vans which entered the home of the national leader
of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on the eve of the 2019
presidential election.
According to him, the petition
was baseless and written in bad faith.
Sagay told Daily Independent that
Tinubu is rich from his own hard work, investments and should be given the
benefit of the doubt instead of being subjected to persecution.
He said: “If there is no credence
in the petitions, what is there to investigate? You know Nigerians are very
adept at writing petitions. They like frivolous petitions just as they like
litigations. If you know how many petitions are thrown out at the NJC, you will
be amazed.
“The Nigerian mind tends to be
very vicious in terms of these things. They don’t like Tinubu so they must
write a petition against him; a stupid baseless petition.
“My view is that there is no
basis for those petitions. There is no merit in those petitions and that is why
the EFCC is not acting on them.
“They said they sighted bullion
vans in front of his house. Is that an offence? It makes no sense to me. If a
bullion van comes to my house now to deliver anything, does that make me a
criminal? Even if it is money, and it is my money, what is wrong in that?
“So, I don’t see anything in
those petitions. They are just written in bad faith and hatred and they can’t
expect the EFCC to join them in this baseless hatred of other people and pursue
a vicious campaign of calumny.
“Tinubu was already very rich
before he became governor. He is not a man who became rich after he joined the
government.
“He worked in the petroleum
sector. I recalled that during the course of his fight with Abacha, he had to
escape for his life in order to join so many other people like Anthony Enahoro,
Wole Soyinka, and many other pro-democracy activists.
“Tinubu was the one funding quite
a lot of the organisations and those staying abroad. So, he has always been a
man of means.
“It will be ridiculous that
having come back to the country, won’t he invest his money in various ventures?
So, no one should be surprised that he is a rich man.
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