Jude Ndukwe, the special adviser to Fani-Kayode on media, has revealed why former minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, is still being detained because the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Jude Ndukwe alleged that the EFCC hopes to extract statements from Femi Fani-Kayode that would implicate Goodluck Jonathan and other PDP leaders including serving governors
Ndukwe denied that his boss was still in detention since May 9, 2016 because he could not meet the bail condition.
“Chief Fani-Kayode has since fulfilled the conditions for his bail but rather than take the honourable path of releasing him pending any charge brought against him, the anti-graft agency moved him from Abuja to Lagos where they obtained a questionable warrant to further detain him illegally for another three weeks.
“This is all in a bid to forcefully extract statements from him that would implicate his principal, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other PDP leaders including serving governors whom he served as director of media and publicity of the PDP campaign organisation.
“It is obvious that the EFCC has other opposition leaders whom they have referred to as ‘big fish’ in their radar and see Fani-Kayode as the only avenue through which they can ‘nail’ such leaders, hence, the anti-graft agency’s puerile attempt to keep him in their custody beyond the legally required length of time in order to break him, his family, and force him to implicate innocent people just to achieve a more sinister motive of further silencing the opposition,” he said.