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<p>Nigeria’s main opposition leader and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as a political weapon to harass and weaken opposition figures.</p><div class="oDrci03F" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>In a statement posted on his verified Facebook page, Atiku alleged that the detention of former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, was purely because he belongs to the opposition coalition. He described the move as “a continuation of the Tinubu-led administration’s agenda to harass, intimidate, and decimate the opposition.”</p>
<p>According to Atiku, the current administration has turned the fight against corruption into a political tool aimed at coercing opposition leaders into defecting to the ruling party. “We are living witnesses to a growing trend where the state and its operators have assumed the roles of a bully by making corruption and the fight against it a political agenda,” he said.</p>
<p>The former Vice President, who was instrumental in establishing the EFCC during his time in office, lamented that the anti-graft agency is now being used contrary to the purpose for which it was created. “Certainly, that is not the objective for which I worked hard during our administration to create the EFCC,” he noted.</p>
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<p>Atiku further claimed that opposition figures are often targeted with “phantom corruption allegations” and only cleared once they align with the political agenda of the Tinubu administration. “It is as though, as soon as they are coerced into the political agenda of President Tinubu, their ‘sins’ are forgiven,” he added.</p>
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<p>He warned that such practices undermine the fight against corruption and instead create an enabling environment for it to thrive. “That, certainly, is not how to fight the monster of corruption. Indeed, such tendencies provide the stimulant for corruption to thrive,” Atiku stressed.</p>
<p>The opposition leader also accused the EFCC of being instrumental in pressuring opposition governors to defect to the ruling party. “We have seen how the EFCC has been used to empty opposition state governors into the ruling party, and the tea party is not about to end anytime soon,” he said.</p>
<p>While reiterating his support for a genuine fight against corruption, Atiku called on civil society groups and the international community to condemn what he described as the politicisation of anti-corruption agencies. “Our assurance to Nigerians is that we would never succumb to these anti-democratic machinations of railroading our people into a one-party dictatorship,” he concluded.</p>
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