Ola Olukoyede, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, alleges that the group’s chairman, Ola Olukoyede, met with a former South-South governor and his predecessor 48 hours before they left the All Progressives Congress.
Paul Ibe, a spokesperson for former vice president Atiku Abubakar, made the allegations during a recent interview with Channels Television, which followed.
Ibe, who was a guest on Seun Okinbaloye’s Politics Today on Thursday, claimed that the EFCC Chairman and Solicitor General had a meeting with a South-South region governor 48 hours before they made their APC-decamped. He also asserted that the meeting took place in a government residence in South-South Georgia.
Sheriff Oborevwori, the governor of Delta State, and Ifeanyi Okowa, his successor, resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party in April.
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The EFCC responded to the claim by calling it “unfounded” and calling it “patently fabricated” in a statement released on Friday.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, or EFCC, is outraged by Mr. Paul Ibe’s allegation that Ola Olukoyede, the executive chairman, and an unnamed politician held a covert meeting with him, which is untrue.
On Thursday, May 22, 2025, Seun Okinbaloye’s Politics Today on Channels Television’s Seun Okinbaloye bared his mind on various hypotheses, conjectures, and assumptions relating to opposition politics and defections.
His allegations that the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede, and the Solicitor General of the Federation had a meeting with an unnamed governor forty-eight hours prior to his transition to the All People’s Congress, APC, are patently false and infamatory are, however, in bad taste. Olukoyede has stated in the statement that the EFCC is “fully wired against partisan tendencies” in numerous forums.
Source: Channels TV
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