The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to immediately release former Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa.
The party’s Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, made the call at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, describing Okowa’s detention by EFCC as political witch-hunting, persecution and another method of silencing the opposition parties, saying that this was not good for democracy.
Osadolor advised the anti-graft agency not to see itself as an extension of the ruling party or the presidency, but a neutral, independent body that investigates financial crimes.
Recall that EFCC arrested Okowa for allegedly diverting N1.3 trillion being precedes of the 13 per cent derivation funds that accrued to the state during his tenure.