{"id":121383,"date":"2025-08-12T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121383"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:48:16","slug":"tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal: Tinubu using EFCC to harass, decimate opposition &#8211; Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the opposition political parties have continued to criticize the recent arrest of former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, by the Economic and Finance Crime Commission (EFCC).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pointblanknews.com reported that the EFCC on Monday took the current Senator representing Sokoto South, Tambuwal, into custody over allegations of massive and suspicious cash withdrawals totaling \u20a6189 billion during his eight-year tenure as governor.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The African Democratic Congress (ADC) had on Monday alleged that the Commission operates like a political hit squad for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), deployed to fight government critics and opposition figures, thereby achieving what the government cannot achieve through public debate.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in a series of tweets on his official X handle also said that the arrest is part of the plans by the Tinubu-led administration to harass, intimidate, and decimate the opposition.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Painting a picture of how opposition parties are being hounded by the Tinubu administration Atiku said, \u201cThe reality unfolding before us today is that the Tinubu administration, as with other aspects, has objectified the fight against corruption as a political tool to coerce opposition leaders into the ruling party.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are living witnesses to a growing trend where the state and its operators have assumed the roles of a bully by making corruption and the fight against it a political agenda.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCertainly, that is not the objective for which I worked hard during our administration to create the EFCC.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is as though today, anyone who associates with the opposition is a target for phantom corruption allegations, and it is as though, as soon as they are coerced into the political agenda of President Tinubu, their \u2018sins\u2019 are forgiven.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">While condemning the development, Atiku said, \u201cThat, definitely, is not how to build institutions. That, certainly, is not how to fight the monster of corruption. Indeed, such tendencies provide the stimulant for corruption to thrive.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have seen how the EFCC has been used to empty opposition state governors into the ruling party, and the tea party is not about to end anytime soon\u201d.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Vice President acknowledged the need for a genuine fight against corruption and said that it requires the total support of all Nigerians.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the objectification of it as a political agenda should be roundly condemned by all in civil society spaces and friends of Nigeria in the international community.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lamented how the government is coercing political leaders into the ruling party and assured that Nigerians would never succumb to the anti-democratic machinations of railroading people into a one-party dictatorship.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa Members of the opposition political parties have continued to criticize the recent arrest of former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, by the Economic and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tambuwal: Tinubu using EFCC to harass, decimate opposition - Atiku - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tambuwal: Tinubu using EFCC to harass, decimate opposition - Atiku - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Myke Agunwa Members of the opposition political parties have continued to criticize the recent arrest of former Governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, by the Economic and&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-12T14:48:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Tinubu-Atiku.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/tambuwal-tinubu-using-efcc-to-harass-decimate-opposition-atiku\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Tambuwal: Tinubu using EFCC to harass, decimate opposition &#8211; 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