EFCC set to declare Nyako wanted

Murtala Nyako 
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangements to declare the impeached Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, wanted.

The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, made this kenned to   one of our correspondents in a telephone interview in Abuja on Tuesday.

Uwujaren expounded that the commission was set to do so   because Nyako had been elusive since his abstraction by the members of the state House of Assembly last week.

He verbally expressed, “Since Nyako was abstracted, he has been elusive. So the commission has devised a strategy to declare him wanted. The commission is orchestrating to declare him wanted.”

But an aide to the impeached governor, who asked not to be designated, claimed that the   commission had already     declared his ascendant figure wanted.

When asked for further comments, he directed one of our correspondents to the anti-graft agency.

But Nyako’s Director of Press and Public Affairs, Ahmad Sajoh, verbalized he was neither surprised nor   perturbed by EFCC’s decision to hound his ascendant figure.

He expressed confidence that posterity would judge the Nyako administration benevolently.

Sajoh verbalized,   “They (the then regime of the day) set up Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, incriminated him of a coup, jailed him unjustifiably and he later emerged from prison to become President; they orchestrated the impeachment of Ayo Fayose, today they have returned him as governor-elect.

“We have no fears. They harassed a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Sanusi Lamido, and today he is the Emir of Kano. So, if what they are doing has Allah’s support, he would not elevate the people being mortified.

“There is judgment of history; there is judgment of God. Today they are at the helm of affairs; it does not mean they will be at the helm of affairs tomorrow. They should withal await Allah’s judgment.”

Nyako’s deputy, Bala Ngilari, was however grilled for about three hours by the EFCC operatives on Tuesday.

Ngilari arrived at the commission’s office at 10 am and was sanctioned to go after 1pm.

A highly placed source at the commission verbalized, “The former deputy governor was here. He responded to our invitation, he interacted with operatives for some hours afore he was sanctioned to go.”

It was accumulated that the leadership of the commission had taken a decision to defreeze one of several accounts operated by the Adamawa State Regime to enable the state to pay outstanding salaries of civil coadjutants.

Our source verbalized, “One of the state regime accounts, the salary accounts, has been de-frozen. The other ones have not been hoisted because they are a component of the investigation.

“This one was relinquished so that the regime could pay salaries; you ken you cannot cripple the business of regime.”