Malami, Instigated EFCC Against Obiano, Says Anambra Government

By Uche Mbah

The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), is allegedly behind  the decision of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to put  the Governor of Anambra State, Wiilie Obiano, on its watch list,  C. Don Adinuba,  the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, alleges.

The media was awash a couple of days ago  with the story that the EFCC, in a letter to the Comptroller General of Immigration Services asked that Obiano be put on the watch list and inform it anytime he wants to travel abroad when he leaves office in March 2022.

Obiano is currently out of the country. He will hand over to the Governor-elect, Professor Charles Soludo on March 22, 2022.

Speaking on Politics Today, a current Affairs program of Channels Television Thursday, Adinuba, said the EFCC  under the Office of the AGF. Malami, had made attempts to derail the recent governorship election in Anambra, adding that the threat was political.

“Nobody invited him (the governor) to interrogate him or hear his own side of the story. No petition was presented to him. He did not make any comments. But all of a sudden, the EFCC announced rather secretly…using the media as a third party, that he is being watched. That is very surprising. There is absolutely no reason for that. And worse, the EFCC gave the impression that the Governor wants to bolt away when he has a whole four months to remain in office.

“It is unimaginable that a Governor will abandon a State for a whole four months to the end of his tenure. That is surprising. It just does not make sense to anyone simply because the whole exercise is politically motivated.”

Speaking on those allegedly after Obiano, he said: “I will repeat who these people are. The very people who did not want election to hold in Anambra State and had the audacity to tell the whole nation that the election was not going to hold for security reasons, without clearance with the President.

“Immediately the President got to know of this plot, he was alarmed and said ‘no, the election must hold in Anambra and it must be free and fair’. And the election actually became free, fair and transparent, and its outcome is in sync with the sentiments and expectations of the generality of not only Anambra people but all Nigerians.

“Consequently, Soludo’s victory became a national phenomenon. These people have tried everything possible to stop APGA’s representative, Soludo.  They went as far as approving a Customary Court in Abuja to obtain summons – criminal summons – on Soludo. They went as far as arranging a kangaroo judgment from a High Court in Jigawa State over the chairmanship of APGA and more importantly the authentic candidate of APGA in the November 6 gubernatorial election in Anambra State.”