Nigerian former President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),Farida Waziri, to name the person his administration stopped from investigating if she was not lying against him.
Waziri was chairman of the anti-graft agency during Jonathan’s time in office.
Over the weekend, she alleged that her refusal to back down from the probe of one of the masterminds of the fuel subsidy scam earned her a dismissal by Jonathan.
Reacting, Jonathan charged her to reveal the identity of whom she claimed to have been sacked for investigating.
Writing on his Twitter handle on Wednesday, Jonathan said failure to give such evidence will prove she was hired to attack him.
He wrote: “If Farida is not telling lies, she should mention the person or company she was investigating and she was stopped, let the EFCC investigate.
“Crime has no statute bar. If she can’t then she was simply hired to attack me.”
If Farida is not telling lies she should mention the person or company she was investigating and she was stopped, let the @officialEFCC investigate. Crime has no statute bar. If she can’t then she was simply hired to attack me.
“It is understandable that when there is a new government in power, people would want to ingratiate themselves to the new administration and one of the easiest way to do this is by demonizing the previous government,” Omokri had said.
