EFCC Boss, Magu Drags Media To Court Over Governorship Bid Report

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has regarded as fake the report that its Chairman, Ibrahim Magu is bidding to run as governor of his state, Borno state.

The rumor was said to have been carried by an online media platform, attaching the closed-door meeting of President Buhari and Ali Modu Sheriff to the reason about Magu’s election so as to seek “protection from arrest following a series of exposé that would lead to his conviction”.

EFCC said the report was titled: “Exclusive: Buhari Holds Secret Talks With Sheriff To Push For EFCC Magu’s Guber Ambition” on the media website.

In an official statement, the anti-graft agency recognizes such report as false, malicious and an affront on Mr. Magu’s professional integrity as it was stressed that the EFCC chair is not a politician

“The report is false, malicious and an affront on Mr. Magu’s professional integrity. The EFCC chair who was recently named chairman of heads of anti -corruption agencies in
Commonwealth Africa has been exemplary in the discharge of his duties as anti-graft czar and does not need protection from forces which exist only in the fecund imagination of the publisher of the Online news portal.

Moreover, the disingenuous attempt to dress Magu in the garb of a politician is the height of mischief in fiction writing. Mr. Magu is not a politician, and is not nursing any governorship ambition”, the statement partly said.

Following this and some other past maligning reports credited to the particular media outfit, EFCC stated that Ibrahim Magu is ready to sue the media to court for libel.

“The EFCC chair who said he has taken notice of the consist campaign of calumny against his person by the online platform, disclosed that he has briefed his lawyers to initiate legal action against the news medium, and all others who published the libellous report”, ends the EFCC statement.