The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, has rejected allegations by Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, that it’s being utilized by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and different political actors to persecute him for refusing to affix the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
The anti-graft company’s response follows the December 31, 2025 arraignment of Bauchi State Finance Commissioner, Yakubu Adamu, and three others over alleged terrorism financing and cash laundering involving $9.7 million in state funds reportedly permitted by the governor.
In an announcement issued on Friday, the EFCC described Mohammed’s claims as “wild” and “far-fetched,” insisting it operates independently and with out political affect.
“The Fee is non-partisan and discharges its mandate with out affection or ailing will,” the assertion mentioned, warning that portraying the EFCC as a instrument of political pursuits was “mischievous and condemnable”.
The anti-graft company dismissed strategies that Wike or any political workplace holder may affect its investigations, describing such claims “derogatory” and deceptive.
The EFCC additionally identified that Mohammed himself had confronted cash laundering prices earlier than turning into governor, noting that solely constitutional immunity has stalled that case.
“Who influenced the Fee to analyze and cost him in 2016?” it requested.
In response to the EFCC, the proof towards some Bauchi State officers is already earlier than the courtroom, and Nigerians can decide for themselves whether or not the case is pushed by vendetta or by “painstaking investigation”.
It added that Mohammed’s title seems within the cost as a result of he was the approving authority for the transactions in query.
The company warned towards trivializing terrorism financing allegations, stressing that it’s sure to implement current legal guidelines wherever violations happen.
“It’s the top of hypocrisy for opposition politicians to cry persecution each time considered one of their very own is investigated, but stay silent when members of the ruling occasion are charged,” the assertion mentioned, noting that the EFCC just lately arraigned a senior determine inside the ruling occasion with out related protests.
The Fee urgrd Governor Mohammed to deal with governing Bauchi State and permit it to hold out its mandate of sanitizing Nigeria’s monetary system.
