Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has denied allegations that his office is currently investigating the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu.
Making the revelation via a television interview, Malami disclosed that he could not speak on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, as the two bodies had their statutory powers to launch investigations without referring to him.
“The Office of the AGF, as you rightly know, has not taken any decision, has not filed or institute any action before any court in the land relating to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“But then, within the context of the law, 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 Prosecutions, has not initiated any proceedings (on Tinubu) and no investigation has been instituted at its instance by any agency of government be it EFCC or the Code of Conduct Bureau,” Malami said.
Reports of the EFCC possibly investigating the financial affairs of the APC national leader through a memo written by the Lagos office of the EFCC to the CCB for details of the assets declaration forms submitted by Tinubu, had gone viral recently.
