{"id":101975,"date":"2022-12-15T16:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101975"},"modified":"2022-12-15T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:30:53","slug":"developing-efcc-confirms-vetting-petitions-against-top-politicians-ahead-of-2023-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/developing-efcc-confirms-vetting-petitions-against-top-politicians-ahead-of-2023-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing: EFCC confirms vetting petitions against top politicians ahead of 2023 polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, has confirmed that the anti-graft agency is critically looking at every petition directed against top Nigerian politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa said the Petitions Vetting Desk\/Committee of EFCC, made up of experienced officers from the Legal Department as well as those trained to investigate such petitions, were reviewing these petitions to see whether they had merits that would warrant prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Bawa made this disclosure while answering questions from State House Correspondents at the 62nd Session of the State House Briefing organised by the Presidential Media Team at Presidential Villa Abuja, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the EFCC was working on every petition directed to it to establish the veracity of such petition.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the agency, which he leads, was out to work for the interest of Nigerians and was determined to carry out its duties without fear or favour.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if EFCC had received any petition against any of the 18 presidential candidates angling to succeed President Buhari, Bawa said: \u201cOn the question if we received petitions against top politicians contesting for office, my question is at this hour do you want to start inviting all the presidential candidates to come and make statements? 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