Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu over corruption allegations.
Speaking on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics
Today, Ononuju alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration
is the most corrupt in Nigeria’s history.
According to him, the anti-graft agency was used as a recruitment agency
for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after sweeping to power
in 2015.
“No government in Nigeria’s history has ever shown itself to be this
massively corrupt. Nobody has ever done this quantum of corruption,” he
said.
Speaking further, he accused the suspended EFCC boss of using who he
described as ‘boys’ to intimidate people under the pretext of
prosecuting corrupt individuals.
“Don’t forget, Mr Magu was used for recruitment. They would come to you
and if you are guilty, the Magu boys will go and perform heavy
shake-down. The next day you travel to your village, come back with a
card, you are in APC and you are free,” he said.
On the travails of Magu, the PDP member explained that the suspended
EFCC czar began to deal with the system upon realizing that he was being
used by the ruling party.
While insisting that Nigerians should not blame Magu, he maintained that
Magu saw how the anti-graft agency was handled under his predecessors
notably Nuhu Ribadu, Ibrahim Lamorde as the system did not ask a
question.
Ononuju, however, noted that his party, the PDP will still compile a
list of its members that have been deprived of their properties by the
EFCC in the name of fighting corruption.
His remarks come two days after the main opposition party called for the
thorough investigation of Magu, adding that it is the thing to do.
PDP said Magu’s ‘indictment’ reinforces its position that the much-hyped
war against corruption by the EFCC, under his watch, has been a huge
scam by corrupt individuals to cover the plundering of public resources,
harass political opponents, intimidate and extort money from innocent
Nigerians.