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2023 Elections: Festus Keyamo sues Atiku Abubakar

Last updated: January 20, 2023 6:24 pm
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The chief spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) Festus Kyamo has approached the Abuja Federal high court, following his petition against the Chairmen of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), accusing the PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar of four major infractions. 

The APC chieftain In the suit filed on Friday at the trial court, against Atiku, the CCB, ICPC and EFCC, prayed the court to make a mandatory order compelling the anti-graft agencies to invite and/or arrest, investigate and (if found wanting) prosecute Atiku Abubakar in respect of the information available to him “in respect of a certain bank account belonging to a company named Marine Float and other accounts of two undisclosed companies, which information he disclosed to a certain close aide of his called Michael Achimugu, as to how the said accounts were used as “Special Purpose Vehicles” to secretly divert and misappropriate public funds between 1999 and 2007 when the Atiku served as Vice President of Nigeria.

Kyamo had given the three anti-graft agencies a 72-hour ultimatum to arrest, interrogate and prosecute the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar for alleged fleecing of public funds.

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the Suit.

Editor: Hadiza.A.A

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