EFCC Allegedly Serving APC’s Interests by Targeting Opposition, Says ADC

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been charged by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) with using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a political tool against opposition MPs.
The ADC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, claimed in a statement on Monday that the EFCC’s recent actions—such as calling in opposition members and revisiting previous cases—were driven by political goals.
As a brave guardian of the Nigerian people’s confidence, the EFCC was established to enforce the law equally to all parties, whether they were allies or adversaries, the ruling party or the opposition. According to Abdullahi, “that vision seems to have been compromised today.”
The anti-graft agency had broken with impartiality, according to the ADC, and was now acting as “a department of the APC, deployed to fight government critics and opposition figures.”

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Additionally, it charged that the EFCC had abandoned investigations against APC supporters while chasing opposition leaders with tenacity.

“The EFCC’s investigations into his administration have never been seen by the public again since a certain former governor defected to the APC with the entire political apparatus of his state. Nobody has posed a question. There was no document leak. Absolutely no updates. Party affiliation, not proof, seems to determine one’s guilt or innocence in modern-day Nigeria, Abdullahi stated.

The Nigerians, not the APC, own the EFCC.
The ADC said that the EFCC’s and Nigeria’s anti-corruption efforts’ credibility was being harmed by the apparent partisanship.

“The EFCC is not an APC member. Nigerians are the rightful owners. The opposition party, represented by Abdullahi, emphasized that taxpayers, not the ruling party, are funding it.

He issued a warning, saying that utilizing public institutions to impose political will weakens democracy and increases public mistrust.

Protecting national institutions from political takeover is something that the ADC recommended stakeholders to do.

“This dangerous trend is eroding public trust in the institution and undermining the real fight against corruption. We must not allow public institutions to be hijacked for partisan objectives,” the party declared.