The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has hit back at the Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, for alleging that the chairman of the anti-graft commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa demanded a two million dollars bribe from him.
Politics Nigeria gathered that governor, who is under investigation over alleged corruption, had, during an interview with BBC Hausa, mentioned that the chairman of the anti-graft agency could not be trusted.
Matawalle said he was being investigated because he refused to “offer the EFCC chairperson the money he requested from him.”
However, in a rebuttal of the governor’s allegations, EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren in a statement on Friday, May 19, said Matawalle cannot be taken seriously because he has no evidence against Bawa.
The statement reads, “Matawalle’s recourse to mudslinging is symptomatic of a drowning man clutching at straws.
“But despite the irritation of his phantom claims, the Commission will not be drawn into a mud fight with a suspect under its investigation for corruption and unconscionable pillage of the resources of his state.
“If Matawalle will be taken seriously, he should go beyond sabre-rattling by spilling the beans by providing concrete evidence as proof of his allegations”.
