As the All Progressives Congress (APC) continue to sink due to recent defection of its members, mostly lawmakers in the National Assembly to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the defected members have informed that they are not afraid of being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
They said that it is only those who have cases of fraudulent activities that would be scared of the anti-graft agency.
One of the defector, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, (Kwara-South) according to Sunday Sun online publication admitted that the defectors were ready for any witch-hunt from the APC government and its agencies.
Ibrahim, who is the spokesperson for the 15 senators who recently dumped the APC, explained that the constitution guarantees every Nigerian the right to freedom of association.
He said, “We are not supposed to prepare for the worst scenario but we are ready to make any sacrifice to defend democracy. We are telling the whole world to be vigilant because this government has shown enough traits of being a dictatorship.”
Also, one of Saraki’s loyalists in the Senate, who spoke on a condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media on the issue, said the EFCC had done its worst.
According to him, what could be worse than what the agency put the Senate President and his wife, Toyin, through over the case of alleged false asset declaration?
The source, noted that after the Code of Conduct Bureau and the EFCC tried but failed to establish a case against Saraki, the police had now taken over his persecution.
The senator said, “We are not expecting anything (from the Federal Government); there is nothing worse they want to do (against Saraki), if there was any, they would have done so before his defection.”
He said unlike the case of the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, who is now being investigated by the EFCC shortly after his defection, Saraki had gone through the tortuous trial and triumphed.
He said, “What else can the EFCC do? The commission investigated him and could not find anything (against Saraki). They then used the EFCC’s report against him at the CCT. What else? You could see that the lead prosecution witnesses in the case were EFCC operatives. That was why the Supreme Court in its judgment said other agencies had taken over the job of the CCB, which was supposed to conduct the investigation, and that was a minus for the case.”
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