Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has requested Bola Tinubu’s asset declaration documents from the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), in a politically-charged inquiry that could see the former Lagos governor and the ruling party chieftain arrested and prosecuted before 2023.
The anti-graft office in November 2020 asked the asset fraud investigation office to supply details of Mr. Tinubu’s asset documents as part of an ongoing probe of the politician, according to a copy of the request obtained by the Peoples Gazette.
The request, made in a letter marked CR/3000/EFCC/LS/Vol4/322 dated November 6 and signed by the then Lagos zonal head, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who is now the Chairman of the EFCC, was a follow-up to previous demands made with respect to Mr. Tinubu’s asset filings.
In the letter, the EFCC referred to its previous letter of September 4, 2020, and CCB’s response of October 9, 2020, asking the bureau to supply “outstanding requested information of Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu.”
It was not immediately clear whether or not the CCB has obliged the EFCC’s request for additional information ever since, or the nature and scope of information provided if applicable.
See below the Peoples Gazette’s tweet on the subject:
EXCLUSIVE: EFCC goes after Bola Tinubu for corruption, writes CCB for ex-Lagos governor’s asset documents https://t.co/ZvcvRZBFEQ
— Peoples Gazette (@GazetteNGR) March 2, 2021