The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has spoken on the recent visit of former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, to it’s office, News About Nigeria reports.
The commission dismissed the visit, stating that Bello was not genuinely prepared to surrender himself.
EFCC Director of Public Affairs, Wilson Uwujaren, made this assertion during an interview on Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Thursday.
He noted that Bello had another chance to appear before Justice Emeka Nwite at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, where his ongoing money laundering case was adjourned to October 30, 2024, for a ruling.
This, according to him, proves that his visit to the office of the ommission was a mere stunt.
He added that the former governor had a game plan which can only be explained himself.
He stated, “When EFCC officials went to the Kogi Governor’s lodge to ask him to come back, he would have followed them if he had no issue presenting himself to the commission.
“If he had done that he would have complied with the decision of the court of Appeal which mandated him to formally present himself. That as I am concerned exposed his insincerity in appearing at the car park of the EFCC on the 18th of September.
“Even before he arrived at the car park of the EFCC, he had already sent out media information across all the platform that he had presented himself to the EFCC and they were even saying he had been detained and that was not true.
“That alone showed us that he had a game plan. And that game plan can only be explained by him alone.”
