The Attorney-General of the Federation said on Tuesday that his office is not investigating the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had in November 2020, reportedly sent a letter to the Code of Conduct Bureau requesting copies of Tinubu’s Asset Declaration Form.
This is contradictory to the Attorney General’s statement that his office has no record or instituted any action before any court in Nigeria against Tinubu.
He said: “The office of the AGF, as you rightly know, has not taken any decision, has not filed or instituted any action before any court in the land relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But then, within the context of the law, as you rightly know, the EFCC and the Code of Conduct are all statutory bodies vested with statutory powers to act within the context of the law establishing them. So, I am not in a position to give you a precise answer.
The office of the AGF and its arm, which is the Director of Public Prosecution, has not initiated any proceedings and no investigation has been instituted at its instance by any agency of the government be it EFCC or the Code of Conduct Bureau.”
Furthermore, he said, he is not the right person to answer if the Code of Conduct and the EFCC are probing Tinubu’s case.
