PDP senators led by Senator Peter Nwaoboshi have warned the Nigerian federal government not to use the Economic and Financial crime commission (EFCC) to intimidate its senators. The senators said that President Buhari should not make sure to warn people working with him not use his own good name to use EFCC as a machinery to fight their political opponents.
Senator Nwaoboshi warned that any attempts by the current administration to use the EFCC against the senators during this time of the crisis rocking the National assembly will constitutionally and unlawfully resisted, and would have dire consequences on governance in the country.
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi in his statement said :
As much as we are not against the anti-corruption agencies performing their statutory duties, the invitation by EFCC to the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, clearly indicated that the threat by a group within the National Assembly to use all means to fight the National Assembly leadership is now being carried out
Nigerians should ask the EFCC what it was waiting for all this while before realising that it would need to invite Mrs. Saraki when she left the Government House with her husband in 2011. And why should the invitation come a few days after a senator threatened that his group would bring the senate president down?
We also think that the same witch-hunt that the wife of the senate president is suffering now is the same thing happening to his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, who the police have been disturbing. But at the right time, we will jointly make our opinion known on the harassment of our leaders.