The sacked national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
Adams Oshiomhole has summoned his legal team for guidance as the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), under the new leadership of Mohammed Umar,
swoops in on high profile politicians, including Oshiomhole, whose files were
found in the home of Ibrahim Magu, the suspended EFCC chairman, last week.
According to a source who spoke on
condition of anonymity, the new EFCC boss, Umar, has commenced investigations
into all the cases contained in the files that were recovered from his
predecessor’s house after a search was carried out It was earlier reported that
Magu was said to have been shielding some high profile politicians, from
justice, with several tactics designed to delay their trial.
Coincidentally,
Oshiomhole‘s arrest is coming at a time his friend and the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, is entangled in a N700m
money laundering case preferred against him by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Since 2016, Bishop Dr. Osadolor Ochei
JP, a human rights activist and anti-crusader based in Benin City, has
vigorously pursued the corruption case he initiated through a petition to the EFCC,
alleging that Oshiomhole violated relevant sections of the constitution when he
acquired a sprawling city of mansions in his home town, Iyamho, worth over N10
billion, while in office, amongst other allegations.
An Edo-based political analyst, Mr Egbon
Usoh, who spoke on the development, said the probable arrest of Oshiomhole will
end Ize-Iyamu’s governorship ambition.
“The imminent arrest of Oshiomhole will
mark the end of Ize-Iyamu’s ambition to be governor of Edo State..
“Oshiomhole as we all know is the force
behind Ize-Iyamu in the ongoing electioneering campaign, though that force has
been weakened substantially since his sack as the national chairman of the APC,
so Oshiomhole’s arrest should worry the Ize-Iyamu’s camp,” Usoh said.
All efforts to reach Oshiomhole to
comment on the development proved abortive, as he was said to be meeting with
his lawyers for guidance. Oshiomhole’s associate who pled anonymity, said; “the
former APC national chairman is very busy at the moment. He will not talk to
journalists now. He has even suspended all political engagements for now,
including his support for Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu’s campaigns.”
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