Osun: Tinubu has exposed myth of EFCC independence – Atiku

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that President Bola Tinubu’s order to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to vacate the court order freezing the Osun State Government’s account has undermined claims that the anti-graft agency is independent of the Presidency.
Atiku, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, said the President, through the directive, has “perhaps unwittingly, exposed the fiction of institutional independence under his administration.”
However, the former Vice President, while stating that President Tinubu’s intervention has created a constitutional and “moral obligation that cannot be selectivel...