EFCC Boss, Magu’s Office Comes Under Threat

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu is having his position under threat as the Rivers state’s Governor Nyesom Wike calls for his sack.

Following the recent move of the anti-graft agency at freezing the government accounts of both Benue and Akwa Ibom, Wike criticized the rationale as he asked Acting President Osinbajo to remove the EFCC boss from office.

“I am calling for the sack of the Acting
Chairman of the EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Magu, for overthrowing a tier of government. The mere fact that the two accounts have been re-opened does not mean that a crime was not committed,” Governor Wike told journalists on Thursday, in Port Harcourt, according to a Government House press statement.

“When you freeze the account of the State Government, you have overthrown that government. Without funds, a state cannot function. This means the shutdown of government business at Executive, Legislature and Judiciary in the affected states.”

According to him, if the director general of the State Security Services (SSS), Lawal Daura could be sacked because of the recent siege to the National Assembly, then the acting chairman of the EFCC as well deserves to be sacked and prosecuted for his action against the two states.

Mr Wike said the EFCC, as an agency of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-controlled federal government, went after Benue state government because of the defection the state governor, Samuel Ortom, from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He said the EFCC was ultimately targeting the Rivers state government.

He called on the Nigeria Governors Forum to defend the independence of states.