EDO TO DRAG EFCC TO COURT FOR DABBLING IN POLITICS

Edo state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday disclosed that the state government would drag the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to court for abandoning its constitutional role and allegedly becoming a ‘political commission.”

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who dropped the hint during a townhall meeting held in Benin explained that a legal team has been assembled to challenge the authority of the EFCC.
The governor said he was surprised when the EFCC chose to investigate impeachment of the former Deputy Speaker, Festus Ebea, when so many impeachments have occurred across the country. “Our own EFCC is now Economic Financial and alleged Political Crimes. I am still
unable to understand how EFCC assumed responsibility to investigate impeachment of a Deputy Speaker.
That is how far the EFCC has degenerated. “When armed robbers are the one looking for thieves then the story will change. We are watching how things will go. We have assembled a legal team to take EFCC to court to challenge their authority to become a political commission. We will fight them on our feet and never beg them on our knees. We will show them respect but never shall we display an act of cowardice. We want to see how far they can go. The greatest weapon is to deliver on good governance,” he said.
The governor also hinted of plans to sue Pastor Osagie Ize- Iyamu over alleged libelous statements after a supposed bomb attack on a building owned by him, adding that, he was still consulting “to find out if he (Ize-Iyamu) is right to make those criminal libel and get away with it.”
He said the self-inflicted wound and arranging bombs was meant to divert attention from the criminal acts on the attack on Edo Legislators’ Quarters, stressing that the APC defectors want to attract sympathy to make people feel that they were suffering because of joining the PDP. He
noted that the orgy of violence in Edo reared its head when Pastor Ize-Iyamu and others decamped to the PDP. “Edo State has always been peaceful.
The APC and PDP had co-existed peacefully in Edo State without such ugly incidents as witnessed in the past few weeks, and it is clear that these decampees are the ones who have now introduced these spires of violence to the state since they have no new values to add,” the governor said. “The poster Pastor Ize-Iyamu carried to the Airport reads, ‘Mr. President, see what we are suffering for supporting you.’ All of these are designed to appeal to the powers in PDP to grant more concession having portrayed themselves as people who are suffering because they decamped,” Oshiomhole said. He said he was convinced that the leadership of the PDP at all levels were not deceived by ‘these opportunistic, infantile and self-serving antics of the
recent decampees.’