The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has alleged he put a call through to former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello , over an alleged N80.2bn fraud , but that the former governor ignored the invitation.
Olukoyede who stated this today, in Abuja during a session with media editors, added, “I called Yahaya Bello, as a serving governor, to come to my office to clear himself. I shouldn’t have done that. But he said because a certain senator had planted over 100 journalists in my office, he would not come.
“I told him that he would be allowed to use my private gate to give him a cover, but he said my men should come to his village to interrogate him.”
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Reacting to assertions elsewhere that the anti-graft agency had disobeyed the law, in its modalities, he stated:
“Rather, we have obeyed the law. I inherited the case, and I didn’t create it. Why has he not submitted himself to the law?” he asked.
“I have arraigned two past governors who have been granted bail now—Willie Obiano and Abdulfatah Ahmed.”
“We would have gone after him since January, but we waited for the court order.
“As early as 7 am, my men were there. Over 50 of them. They mounted surveillance. We met over 30 armed policemen there. We would have exchanged fire, and there would have been casualties.
“My men were about to move in when the governor of Kogi drove in, and they later changed the narrative”, he stated
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