BEVERLY HILLS, July 5, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun state has described as stringent the conditions given by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for the release of a party leader in the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore, who it arrested in Abuja on Sunday morning after a raid on his house.
This was as it held that the anti-corruption war of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is only meant to weaken the ranks of the opposition ahead of the 2019 general elections.
A statement issued by the party’s spokesman in Osun, Prince Diran Odeyemi, disclosed that the EFCC in a letter handed over to Omisore after several hours of interrogation, requested him to produce two serving directors in any of the federal ministries or agency with landed property in Maitama or Asokoro area of Abuja and that the sureties must submit the original C of O of the said landed properties.
“We know too well of a standing instruction to serving civil servants not to stand as sureties in any matter and wonder why EFCC is giving a condition they have already blocked. We will approach the court to seek Senator Omisore’s release and wonder why EFCC has turned itself to an agent of persecution instead of prosecution,” he said.
While dismissing the government’s anti-corruption crusade as only being targeted at those with dissenting views in his reaction to Omisore’s arrest, the Osun PDP Chairman, Soji Adagunodo, said in a statement that: “It is evident with each passing day that the Buhari administration is using its much-vaunted war against graft as a tool to decimate the camp of those who disagree with it on any issue and ensure that it remains politically relevant as another general election draws nearer.”
