Don’t be deterred in your fight against corruption, Group tells Tinubu, EFCC

…alleges individuals connected corruption trials mobilising against president, anti-graft agency

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The National Interest Coalition,NICO, has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) not to beryllium deterred successful their anti-corruption campaign, contempt what it described arsenic a expansive conspiracy by immoderate embattled Nigerians facing corruption trials.

Speaking during a solidarity march and property league successful Abuja connected Monday, NICO leader, Comrade Bashir Abdu, alleged that the individuals had mobilised a N5 cardinal smear run to blackmail EFCC Chairman Olanipekun Olukoyede and derail the President’s renewed anticipation agenda.

According to him, the plotters, fearful of ongoing investigations, are sponsoring propaganda, orchestrating media attacks, and holding concealed meetings overseas to weaken nationalist spot successful the anti-graft war. He further alleged that journalists were being funded from Dubai-based accounts to discredit some Tinubu and the EFCC.

“We were offered N100 cardinal to articulation this crippled against the EFCC Chairman and the President’s anti-corruption war, but we refused,” Abdu said.

The coalition, backed by thousands of protesters, passed a ballot of assurance successful President Tinubu and the EFCC boss, urging them to stay steadfast and not beryllium intimidated by what it described arsenic “insider enemies of the combat against corruption.”

NICO commended reforms introduced by the administration, including tighter fiscal controls and greater autonomy for anti-graft agencies, portion besides highlighting EFCC’s caller recoveries of stolen funds, prosecutions of high-profile cases, and crackdowns connected net fraudsters.

“But arsenic always, corruption fights back,” Abdu warned, stressing that attacks connected the EFCC and President Tinubu’s policies are aimed astatine shielding corrupt officials from justice.

He called connected civilian nine groups, labour unions, pupil associations, spiritual bodies, and each patriotic Nigerians to defy attempts to sabotage the anti-corruption fight.

“This is not conscionable astir the EFCC Chairman,” the conjugation declared. “It is astir Nigeria’s future. We basal with President Tinubu, we basal with the EFCC, and we basal with justice.”

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