In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr. Emeka Obasi, the former governor said the EFCC seemed out to truncate the political ambitions of perceived vocal members of the opposition.
According to him, “it is also strange that the EFCC has gone ahead to draw up a list of Nigerians, most of them innocent bonafide citizens, who should be denied their constitutional rights of vying for positions in the 2011 elections. Among the names on the list are Dr. Kalu, former Health minister Prof. Adenike Grange, and former minister of state in the ministry, Chief Gabriel Aduku among 52 others.
”For the avoidance of doubt, Dr. Kalu has been in court trying to clear himself of trumped up charges by the same EFCC and remains innocent until a court of competent jurisdiction proves otherwise. And because the law permits him, he is very free and most willing to pursue his political ambitions. The EFCC is not a High Court of Justice and can never be one.”
”Better still, we have had cases of people winning election from the prison yard. Nobody stopped them from contesting in the first instance. And nobody, except God wills it, can stop Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu from hearkening to the pleas of his supporters,”he added.
He further stated that though Prof. Grange and Chief Aduku had since been cleared by the judiciary, the duo are still being hounded by the EFCC.
“While the world deemed it fit recently to honour Grange, the first African woman president of the International Pediatrics Association, a group of shadow- chasing Nigerians is bent on turning the law upside down.
”The truth of the matter is that the EFCC must show that it is not the gestapo arm of some interests in Abuja. And there is a lot to be picked from the recent Ekiti judicial roadmap, which ended Mr. Segun Oni’s tenure as governor only when the Appeal Court intervened.
The presidential hopeful said though democracy thrives on the altar of fair play, the law of the land is supreme, there are indications that the anti-graft agency “may be floating in the murky waters of politics in the bid to thwart the political ambitions of some perceived vocal members of the opposition including former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.”
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