The immediate past Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, was wasting time and resources in probing him as they would not find anything.
He insisted that he did nothing wrong while he was the Kwara State governor and President of Senate. Meanwhile the commission, which believes otherwise, is insistent on investigating his headship of the Senate as well as his two-term tenure as governor of the former Kwara State.
A statement issued by Saraki’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, on Monday, also refuted claims by the anti-graft body that he (Saraki) was waging a media war against it.
On the contrary, Saraki claimed that the EFCC was guilty of carrying out a campaign of calumny against him as it gave out copies of “various documents and court processes to a particular newspaper for publication.”
The statement read in part: “We need to reiterate that Dr. Saraki is not interested in obstructing any investigation by the EFCC or any security agency. While the EFCC claims that it is investigating the office of the Senate President between 2015 and 2019, we make bold to say it is just on a wild goose chase.
“That office has nothing to do with contract awards and handling of the finances of the National Assembly. These are functions of the bureaucracy of the National Assembly, otherwise known as the National Assembly Management.
“Various documents and court processes from the agency have been given to a particular newspaper for publication.
“In fact, while the EFCC distributed copies of its letter to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court immediately it was submitted, we are still surprised how Saraki’s response written early May found its way into a newspaper last Sunday.”
