… EFCC Says Letter Cited By APC Was Forged
SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation Friday alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led federal government is working extra hours to raise malicious charges against the leaders and suspected financiers of the opposition APC using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in order to force the presidential candidate of the APC, General Muhammadu Buhari to “try his own men” in a test of his bid to fight corruption without fear or favour.
A statement signed by the APCPCO Media Director, Garba Shehu, alleged that the federal government was planning to take advantage of a vow by General Buhari that, if elected, he will not investigate the past, but that all on-going cases, as he said will be allowed to run through the courts without any hindrance.
“In what is clearly a mischievous attempt to railroad the Presidential Candidate of the APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to subject his own supporters to trial and conviction, the Federal Government, in a letter signed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Brig. Gen. Jones Arogbofa (rtd) sent a list of some of the most senior APC leaders, businessmen and company CEOs with a view to ensuring the immediate commencement of their investigation and trial.
“The list as circulated on the web included former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Gov. Rotimi Amaechi, Gov. Adams Oshiomhole, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, and Gov. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State.
“Others are Senator Danjuma Goje, Senator Bukola Saraki, Faruk Ahmed, Executive Director PPPRA; Sulaiman Barau, a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank; the MD of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Habib Abdullahi, and the DG of the NCAA, Captain Mukhtar Usman.
“The rest are the MD of NDIC, Umaru Ibrahim; Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed; the Group Executive Director of the NNPC, Aisha Abdulraham; the Governorship candidate of the APC in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Alhassan; the PDM candidate for Adamawa Governorship election, who is a former Executive Secretary of UBEC, Ahmed Modibbo, as well as the former Minister of Education, Professor Ruqqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i.
“The letter-forwarding the list to the EFCC quoted the Chief of Staff as saying that he had been “directed by the C-in-C (President) to instruct your Agency to clandestinely investigate the personal and official finances” of the listed individuals,’’ the APC Campaign stated.
Fake Letter From President Jonathan’s Chief of Staff in Circulation – EFCC
Meanwhile, the EFCC in a statement Friday said the letter cited by the APC was forged and urged the public to discountenance it.
The commission in a statement by spokesman, Wilson Uwajaren, said: “The … EFCC wishes to alert the public about a letter supposedly from the office of the Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan, mandating the commission to initiate discreet investigation against some prominent political figures in the country.
“The commission urges the public to discountenance the said letter as it is forged document, intended to mislead the people.
“The features of the letter are markedly different from that on a genuine letter from the office of the Chief of Staff to the president.
“As evidence that this is a clear forgery, we reproduce below the fake letter alongside a copy of an authentic letter from the same office.”
