Group Exposes ‘₦5bn Smear Campaign’ Against Tinubu, EFCC Boss

A group, nether the aegis of the National Interest Coalition (NICO, has raised the alarm implicit what it described arsenic a expansive conspiracy by immoderate embattled apical authorities bureau holders to derail President Bola Tinubu’s anti-corruption combat and destabilise the enactment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The radical alleged that the plot, backed by ₦5billion, was designed to blackmail EFCC president Olanipekun Olukoyede and smear the anti-corruption thrust of the Tinubu administration.

Addressing journalists successful Abuja during a solidarity march and satellite property league connected Monday, NICO leader, Comrade Bashir Abdu, said those down the alleged conspiracy were hopeless men already facing corruption-related cases, who were determined to flight justness astatine each costs.

According to Abdu, the conspirators person deployed stolen nationalist funds to sponsor antagonistic propaganda against the EFCC enactment and President Tinubu.

He claimed they had gone arsenic acold arsenic holding concealed meetings with dissident individuals and financing hostile media campaigns done offshore accounts successful Dubai.

“They privation to divert attraction from ongoing investigations that person exposed their soiled dealings. They are empowering immoderate journalists with billions of naira to smear the sanction of the President and the EFCC leadership. Their volition is simple: to undermine the anti-corruption warfare and destabilise the government,” Abdu alleged.

He further disclosed that NICO was offered ₦100 cardinal to articulation the crippled but refused, insisting that the anti-graft warfare indispensable not beryllium derailed.

Thousands of Nigerians joined the coalition’s solidarity march successful Abuja, chanting enactment for President Tinubu’s medication and passing a ballot of assurance connected the EFCC boss.

NICO listed immoderate of the reforms and achievements nether the Tinubu medication and the existent EFCC leadership, including granting anti-graft agencies escaped hands to prosecute cases, blocking leakages done the Treasury Single Account (TSA), strengthening transgression justness processes, recovering billions successful stolen assets, and securing hundreds of convictions.

“These hopeless attacks are not conscionable against Mr. Olukoyede oregon the EFCC, they are nonstop attacks connected President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, connected the aboriginal of Nigeria’s children, and connected millions of citizens who privation a authorities that works for them, not for corrupt elites,” the conjugation said.

The radical urged the President not to beryllium distracted oregon intimidated, informing that corruption was “fighting back” done orchestrated media campaigns, propaganda, and attempts to overgarment the anti-corruption warfare arsenic selective.

They called connected civilian nine groups, labour unions, pupil associations, spiritual bodies, and patriotic Nigerians astatine location and overseas to defy what they described arsenic a “sinister agenda” and support the country’s anti-corruption institutions.

“This state belongs to implicit 200 cardinal Nigerians, not to a fistful of corrupt men hiding down propaganda. Let the satellite perceive us: We basal with President Tinubu. We basal with the EFCC. We basal with Olanipekun Olukoyede. And we basal with justice,” NICO declared.