Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of transforming into the official attack dog of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Speaking via a statement on Tuesday, HURIWA’s National Coordinator, Emmanuel Onwubiko, described the detention of former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, as a politically-orchestrated smokescreen designed to intimidate and fracture the opposition coalition
They lamented that the anti-graft agency was using selective arrests and investigations to crush the opposition ahead of the 2027 general election.
HURIWA said that, far from being an impartial anti-corruption agency, the EFCC has become an indispensable cog in the machinery of Tinubu’s desperate and crooked quest for a second term.
The Association insisted that every discerning Nigerian could clearly see that the Agency had become an obedient lapdog doing the dirty work of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Every discerning Nigerian can see the handwriting on the wall. The EFCC is no longer the fearless watchdog envisioned by law; it has been reduced to an obedient lapdog, deployed to do the dirty political work of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“What we are witnessing is not the fight against corruption, but the weaponisation of anti-graft powers to intimidate, blackmail, and dismember the opposition,” HURIWA stated.
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