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 Otti Slams Julius Abure Over Continued Sale of Labour Party Nomination Forms Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has strongly criticised the former National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, for proceeding with the sale of governorship nomination forms despite opposition from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and subsisting court rulings. The criticism follows a viral photograph showing Abure presenting a Labour Party nomination form to a former National Vice Chairman of the party, Ceekay Igara, in the company of other party members. Reacting through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Ukoha Ukoha, Governor Otti questioned Abure’s continued claim to leadership of the party.  Ukoha insisted that both judicial pronouncements and INEC’s position have effectively sidelined Abure, describing his actions as being in contempt of court. “I think Abure is in a better position to explain the grounds on which he is still parading himself after a Federal High...

OLUKOYEDE CONFIRMED AS EFCC CHAIR , SETS FRESH AGENDA. (PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE



Olukoyede Confirmed as EFCC Chair, Sets Fresh Agenda


The Senate on Wednesday, October 18, 2023 confirmed the nominations of Mr. Ola Olukoyede and Mr. Muhammad Hammajoda, as Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and Secretary of the Commission respectively.


Their confirmation came after being screened and allowed to address the upper legislative chamber at plenary.


Olukoyede identified three focal areas and raised three posers as important thrusts of plying his new job. The three focal areas are: focus on the mandate of the EFCC, pursuit of transparency and accountability and building the image of Nigeria. To achieve these, he harped on the need for collective responsibility, greater emphasis on preventive frameworks against graft and premium attention on transactional credits.


“We need to reset our focus.  Section 6 of the EFCC Act has given us what an anti-corruption agency should be doing.  Number one, I believe we should be focused on driving economic development. Number two, we must also create an atmosphere of transparency and accountability, number three, we must help as an anti-corruption agency to build the image of Nigeria”, he said.


Continuing, “I also came here with three posers that I like to share with us. Number one is the need for collective responsibility. We need to get to a point in Nigeria where we need to come together on the same page and believe that corruption is a cankerworm to our development. We must come together and believe that, with the way financial crimes have overwhelmed our structures and systems in Nigeria, we can’t move forward and if we move forward, it will be at a snail speed….The time has come for us to show commitment".


Olukoyede also said that: “”the time has come for us to begin to look at more of prevention than enforcement.  Enforcement is a very strong tool in our hands, we are going to apply it very seriously”.   He also pointed out that the anti-corruption war will bite harder with a transactional credit system,  arguing that, “if we allow Nigerians to continue to buy houses and cars with cash, a thousand EFCC, added to a million ICPC will not do us any good”.  The new EFCC’s boss also called for greater improvement in the criminal justice system,  stressing that, “if we really want to fight corruption…..we must encourage our criminal justice system to adjudicate in such a way that,  maximum prosecution doesn’t take more than five years. If we make our criminal justice system works, you will see more of what the anti-corruption agencies are doing and it will be better for all of us”.


The Senate, impressed by the articulation of Olukoyede’s initiatives in driving the anti-corruption war more vibrantly,

confirmed his appointment as a substantive Executive Chairman of the EFCC.  It also confirmed Hammajoda as the Commission’s Secretary. 

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