Anti-Corruption Summit: Edo PDP faults EFCC's choice of Oshiomhole as speaker
The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC’s) choice of former governor Adams Oshiomhole as a guest speaker at a National Anti-corruption Stakeholders’ Summit.
The party said that the commission’s action showed that Nigeria has not started in its fight against corruption.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by the state PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr Chris Osa Nehikhare, the party said that the EFCC’s invitation to Oshiomhole was akin to inviting the “devil to give a talk on holiness and sainthood.”
Nehikhare alleged that Oshiomhole has over 15 pending petitions of mass looting of the state treasury which are known to the EFCC.
He said that the former governor’s invitation to the seminar came at a time Oshiomhole reportedly boasted that nothing would come out of the petitions because of his personal relationship with the embattled EFCC Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu and APC-led Federal Government.
According to him, “this invitation at this time is indeed very curious!”
Nehikhare said: “Edo people and indeed Nigerians are watching this drama with great trepidation. We challenge Oshiomhole’s conscience and moral right to speak on an anti-corruption platform of any kind. Oshiomhole has till this moment not told Edo people about the $54 million he collected from the Federal Government in December 2014. It is alleged that he pocketed that money. Edo people and Nigerians only got to hear of that money because the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) books were audited.
No comments