Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has claimed that President Bola Tinubu is planning to commit election fraud in 2027.
Eze claims that this has been made even more apparent by Tinubu’s recent choice of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as the APC’s national chairman.
Chief Eze said that the abrupt use of the EFCC’s assault mode against alleged political opponents is completely unacceptable and indicates that the administration is concerned about how a credible, free, and fair election would be conducted in the general elections of 2027.
Eze categorically said in a statement made public to the media on Wednesday that none of the nefarious schemes the Tinubu administration is pursuing to hold onto power will succeed.
“I wish to state that none of these acts, both unleashing the EFCC on opposition politicians and appointment of Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda as the National Chairman of APC, so that he can manipulate INEC, will save Tinubu from relocating back to Lagos come 2027,” Eze said.
“The truth is that 2027 general elections are neither between APC and ADC nor any other political party, but emphatically between APC and Nigerians.
“With the level of hydra-headed socio-economic and political calamities that have befallen this country due to Tinubu’s inhumane, clueless and anti-people policies, I know Nigerians will do everything humanly possible to free themselves from the circle of deaths occasioned by maladministration.”
Eze claims that the Tinubu administration’s attempts to dissuade Abubakar Malami (SAN), the immediate Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, from joining the coalition movement are pointless.
Eze claims that Tinubu’s targeting of Malami, one of the late president Muhammadu Buhari’s trusted ministers, only weeks after the previous president’s funeral is an indication of ingratitude and a preoccupation with retaining power at all costs, regardless of who gets the blame.
“Report at my disposal is that Malami will be questioned over at least five suspicious transactions during his time in office as the AGF and Justice Minister,” Eze said.
“Five of the transactions under investigation are: The mysterious payment of $496 million to Global Steel Holdings Ltd (GSHL) as settlement for the termination of the Ajaokuta Steel concession nine years after the Indian company had waived all claims for compensation.
“His handling of the sale of assets worth billions of naira forfeited to the EFCC by politically exposed persons.
“His role in the $419 million judgment debt awarded to consultants who claimed to have facilitated the Paris Club refunds to the states.
“The strange agreement to pay Sunrise Power $200 million compensation in its dispute with the FG over the Mambilla power project; and the duplicated legal fees in the transfer of $321 million Abacha loot from Switzerland to Nigeria.”
The APC chieftain stated that in as much as he is not against prosecuting public officials who are suspected to have corruptly enriched themselves while in office, making such action selective and targeting politically exposed Nigerians in opposition, to say the least, is unacceptable and stands condemned.
“So, Tinubu wants Nigerians to believe and clap for him, that one of the former opposition governors serving presently in his administration as a minister is a saint, and has no skeleton in his cupboard?
“I make bold to state categorically that going after Buhari’s minister (Malami) is a deliberate but calculated plot to send warning signals to leading coalition movement politicians that nobody, no matter how highly placed, will be spared by Tinubu in a bid to retain power in 2027,” Eze said.
Eze contended that the strategy by sitting presidents to use security agencies like EFCC, DSS, Police, ICPC etc. to hound opposition politicians prior to elections has become old-fashioned and no longer dreaded because of its selective aura.
