Jude 6th Ndukwe, the SA Media to detained Director
of Media and Publicity of the 2015 Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP Campaign
Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said
that the former minister of Aviation, has met his
bail conditions as set by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC but the anti-
graft agency has refused to release him with the
aim of forcefully extracting statements from him
that would implicate his principal,
former President Goodluck Jonathan, PDP
chieftains as well as publishers and editors of
major newspapers in the country.
Ndukwe, who disclosed this in a statement made
available to newsmen, alleged that the EFCC
have other opposition leaders whom they have
referred to as “big fish” in their radar and see
Fani-Kayode as the only avenue through which
they can “nail” such leaders, hence, the anti-
graft agency’s puerile attempt to keep him in
their custody beyond the legally required
length of time in order to break him, his family,
and force him to implicate innocent people just
to achieve a more sinister motive of further
silencing the opposition.
He added that 'It is even more worrisome that
the activities of the anti-graft agency has
reached an all-time low as they are insisting that
the former Minister of Culture and Tourism
should name publishers, editors, journalists and
bloggers he allegedly gave money to during the
election campaigns. What has journalists
who covered the PDP campaign as much as that
of APC got to do with this? This is the height of
it all!'
He alleged that the further insistence by EFCC
that Fani-Kayode should deposit a sum of $1m
before he could be let go shows how desperate
the agency is to keep him in their custody and
deny him his fundamental rights as guaranteed
by the constitution.
Ndukwe noted that Fani-kayode 'acknowledged inthe to past and still do that EFCC have a
constitutional and mandatory duty to carry out
their statutory function as empowered by our
laws, it is also our sincerest belief that these
functions can be carried out within the ambit of
the law and without being tainted with vendetta,
vindictiveness and politics' Read full story at Vanguard ngr
of Media and Publicity of the 2015 Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP Campaign
Organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said
that the former minister of Aviation, has met his
bail conditions as set by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC but the anti-
graft agency has refused to release him with the
aim of forcefully extracting statements from him
that would implicate his principal,
former President Goodluck Jonathan, PDP
chieftains as well as publishers and editors of
major newspapers in the country.
Ndukwe, who disclosed this in a statement made
available to newsmen, alleged that the EFCC
have other opposition leaders whom they have
referred to as “big fish” in their radar and see
Fani-Kayode as the only avenue through which
they can “nail” such leaders, hence, the anti-
graft agency’s puerile attempt to keep him in
their custody beyond the legally required
length of time in order to break him, his family,
and force him to implicate innocent people just
to achieve a more sinister motive of further
silencing the opposition.
He added that 'It is even more worrisome that
the activities of the anti-graft agency has
reached an all-time low as they are insisting that
the former Minister of Culture and Tourism
should name publishers, editors, journalists and
bloggers he allegedly gave money to during the
election campaigns. What has journalists
who covered the PDP campaign as much as that
of APC got to do with this? This is the height of
it all!'
He alleged that the further insistence by EFCC
that Fani-Kayode should deposit a sum of $1m
before he could be let go shows how desperate
the agency is to keep him in their custody and
deny him his fundamental rights as guaranteed
by the constitution.
Ndukwe noted that Fani-kayode 'acknowledged inthe to past and still do that EFCC have a
constitutional and mandatory duty to carry out
their statutory function as empowered by our
laws, it is also our sincerest belief that these
functions can be carried out within the ambit of
the law and without being tainted with vendetta,
vindictiveness and politics' Read full story at Vanguard ngr
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