Just In: Tinubu to Shield Yahaya Bello from EFCC Probe? Shettima Opens Up

Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria, has disclosed the position of President Bola Tinubu’s administration on the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Speaking at the second edition of The Chronicle Roundtable in Abuja on Thursday, May 2, the vice president said Tinubu is determined to fight corruption in the country without fear or favouritism.

Shettima speaks on Tinubu’s position on the fight against corruption
Photo Credit: Kashim Shettima, Yahaya Bello and Bola Ahmed TinubuSource: Twitter

The vice president also said the present administration was doing everything possible to reduce the country’s unemployment rate.

According to Channels TV, the event was about how Tinubu’s administration planned to transform the country with its economic and social agenda.

Mohammed Idris, the minister of information, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Shettima’s special adviser on political matters, and Shamsudeen Usman, the former minister of finance, budget, and national planning, attended the event.

This is coming amid the call that President Bola Tinubu should shield the former governor of Kogi state from the probe of the EFCC.

Segun Showunmi, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), recently called on the president not to sever his tie with the North by allowing the anti-graft agency to probe the bigwig in the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Showunmi claimed that the Yoruba politicians had been accused of using and dumping politicians from the north and that it was only former President Olusegun Obasanjo who had fulfilled his own side of the bargain.

But in an exclusive interview with TheTalk.NG, Oladotun Hassa, a Yoruba chieftain, condemned Showunmi’s proposition, adding that Obasanjo messed up with Yoruba’s value system by working toward the third term against the constitution of Nigeria.

He said:

“Under Obasanjo, we had investigations and under Buhari, we continue to have investigations. It is most likely presumed that those who will be facing the Golgotha are most likely from the opposition angle. Those who are in the government of the day will see themselves as the angel.

“I want to defer on the premise of Showunmi that we have value for relationships, and nobody should guide us without notion.”

Speaking on the claim that Obasanjo met his side of the bargain. Hassan said:

“As far as Obasanjo is concerned, he messed our values up by not standing on the constitutional bargain of the country to spend almost 31 years.”

Source: TheTalk.NG