From Jane Okafor, Abuja
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa has said that it is not within his power to determine who should or shouldn't run for any elective office in Nigeria.
Bawa said the qualification for elective political offices in Nigeria are clearly stated in the 1999 Constitution and relevant sections of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended ), stressing that none of these two relevant documents makes
the EFCC chairman a determinant of who runs for an office or otherwise.
He enjoined Nigerians to consider the report as another classic case of fake news a report making the rounds in the
media, in which the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa
is quoted as having advised the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) not to sell forms to any aspirant who has a file with the agency, pursuant to the 2023 general election.
In a release by the anti - graft agency, the EFCC boss urged Nigerians to discountenace the report, saying it is fake news.
"The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to a report currently circulating in the social media in which
in which the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa is quoted as having advised the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) not to sell forms to any aspirant who has a file with the agency, pursuant to the 2023 general election.
"The Commission wishes to state that the report is false as the Executive Chairman has neither met with INEC officials nor made any pronouncement remotely related to election since he was appointed.
"All he has said, in his two public outings so far, pertain to issues concerning his vision for the EFCC and the outlook for the fight against corruption in Nigeria," the agency stated.
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