Within days of each other, Yahaya Bello and Abdullahi Ganduje had a run in with two anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria. If those incidents say anything about President Bola Tinubu’s zeal to nuke down corruption, it isn’t much.
What hits critics straight is the selectivity of the fight. The former Kogi governor is sure deadmeat. But Kano’s ex- governor is going to get most of the backwind he needs.
The EFCC stormed Bello’s Abuja home Wednesday, and laid siege to it. His media aides claimed it was illegal because a Lokoja court injunction restricting the agency still stands.
“Furthermore, judgment in the substantive case between Alhaji Yahaya Bello and the EFCC will be delivered at 12 noon today in Lokoja,” the aides said in a press statement.
The commission has yet to react to this. Not even to disprove the Bello camp claim that the agency now works for people who want Bello’s scalp.
The ruling APC hasn’t responded either. Unlike what it did at both the ward and the national levels when its chairman Ganduje got the court order to face trial on bribery charges.
Efforts by the parish-pump politicians at Ganduje’s ward to sack him as a party member failed—despite a court order upholding it. A former national vice chairman also proposed to Tinubu to make the Ganduje case a sweetheart deal with Kano Gov. Kabir Yusuff.
Bello and his men couldn’t miss this cherry-picking going on. Word, however, failed them.
“We are aware of the total commitment of President Bola Tinubu’s current administration to the rule of law,” the statement read. But blended into the nice words were suspicions.
They said they can say categorically that the EFCC leadership isn’t serving their paymaster any longer.
Whatever, the White Lion of Kogi has surely got into a long-running duel with the anti-corruption eagle. The prosecution may pack as much crackers as N84 billion of Kogi’s monies the commission said Bello stole.
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