The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has deleted a social media post it earlier shared about former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke confessing to looting the nation’s treasury.
The anti-graft agency pulled down the controversial post shortly after it was shared on its Instagram page on Saturday.
The controversial post had claimed that Diezani granted a media interview in London in which she purportedly begged President Bola Tinubu to allow her to “come back home” and confess to her financial misconduct during her tenure as she was “in the second stage of cancer”.
According to the now-deleted post, Diezani mentioned her association with Dauda Lawal Dare, the incumbent governor of Zamfara State, to whom she entrusted over $9 billion for safekeeping while he served as the Executive Director of First Bank Nigeria Plc.
“I am now a born-again Christian and currently grappling with the second stage of cancer, for which my United Kingdom-based physician has advised me to continue medication for the rest of my life,” she disclosed.
“Yes, no one is flawless, but sometimes, God Almighty permits such occurrences.
“I’ve been accused of financial misconduct during my tenure as the petroleum minister, and it’s true! However, I would like President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigerians to forgive me, allow me to return home, and contribute because life is transient,” the post claimed Diezani tearfully stated.
However, the EFCC spokesman, Dele Oyewale, denied the Instagram post, noting that the report neither emanated from nor was it signed by the anti-graft agency.
“The report is not from the EFCC. Anything that is not signed by me is not from us (the EFCC),” Oyewale said.