EFCC Denies Grilling Mustapha, Kwara APC Senatorial Candidate
…allegation handwork of detractors – Media Aide
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, has distanced itself from a report alleging that it interrogated Mr. Saliu Mustapha, the All-Progressives Congress, APC, Senatorial Candidate for Kwara Central within the 2023 common elections.
The EFCC’s rebuttal is coming within the wake of a ‘malicious’ report that the Fee reportedly quizzed Mr. Mustapha for corruption.
Nonetheless, the fee’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwajuren, in a terse message to PRNigeria, denied the report of the alleged Interrogation of the Kwara Senatorial Candidate.
He stated tersely: “I don’t have any such data. Thanks.”
In the meantime, reacting to the baseless story, Gidado Shuaib, media aide to Saliu Mustapha, the Kwara Central APC Senatorial Candidate, stated his principal, in contrast to a few of his detractors, isn’t fraudulent and has by no means been linked to any fraudulent dealing.
“The details about EFCC grilling Mallam is fake in its entirety. Nothing like that occurred. EFCC didn’t invite him, simply as he’s not on the Fee’s path,” he stated.
Gidado, whereas describing the media report because the handiwork of Mustapha’s political opponents who’re afraid of his rising profile, cautioned ‘politicians’ in opposition to dragging EFCC into their ‘political sport’.
“We’ve dependable data that some opposition events in Kwara state really feel that the one strategy to decimate the APC construction within the state is to first assault Mr Mustapha via any means attainable, together with blackmail and marketing campaign of calumny. They’ve recruited a Lagos-based propaganda group to do that soiled job.
“These are deliberate makes an attempt by mischief makers to distract the nice works of Mr Mustapha, who via his campaigns, years of philanthropic efforts and empowerment programmes has been successful the hearts of Kwarans as no true son or daughter of the emirate will have interaction in blackmailing and spoiling the popularity of others with none justifiable motive.”
He stated: “It’s unlucky that some politicians, even on this period, nonetheless play soiled politics. There isn’t any foundation to pull the EFCC into their sport. The Fee isn’t and has by no means had the trigger to analyze Mallam Saliu Mustapha for any form of wrongdoing.
“Saliu Mustapha has been in enterprise for almost 3 many years. He has plied his commerce with excessive integrity and has by no means had any motive to reply questions on his a number of traces of companies,” he concluded.
By PRNigeria
