FCT, Abuja – Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria, has disclosed President Bola Tinubu administration’s position on activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Speaking at the second edition of the Chronicle Roundtable in Abuja on Thursday, May 2, the vice president said Tinubu is determined to fight corruption in the country without fear or favouritism.
The vice president also said the administration was doing everything possible to reduce the country’s unemployment rate.
According to Channels TV, the event was about how Tinubu’s administration planned to transform the country with its economic and social agenda.
Mohammed Idris, the minister of information; Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Shettima’s special adviser on political matters; and Shamsudeen Usman, the former minister of finance, budget, and national planning, attended the event.
This is coming amid the call that Tinubu should shield the former governor of Kogi state from the probe of the EFCC.
Segun Showunmi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), recently called on the president not to sever his tie with the north by allowing the anti-graft agency to probe the bigwig in the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Showunmi claimed that the Yoruba politicians had been accused of using and dumping politicians from the north, adding that only former president Olusegun Obasanjo fulfilled his side of the bargain.
But in an exclusive interview with TimesNow.com.ng, Oladotun Hassan, a Yoruba chieftain, condemned Showunmi’s proposition, adding that Obasanjo messed up with Yoruba’s value system by working toward the third term against the constitution of Nigeria.
He said:
Speaking on the claim that Obasanjo met his side of the bargain. Hassan said:
TimesNow.com.ng earlier reported that the drama following the EFCC’s attempted arrest of Bello on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 has continued to dominate discussions online.
The EFCC operatives were obstructed by some police officers and supporters of the former governor as the anti-graft agency laid siege at the residence of Bello at Zone 4 in Abuja in a bid to arrest him.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
