Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC spokesperson
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of acting like a “political hit squad” for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The party said the commission is engaging in selective investigations, targeting opposition members, while sparing ruling party chieftains.
In a statement on Monday, Bolaji Abdullahi, ADC national publicity secretary, said the EFCC’s “recent pattern of reopening closed cases and pursuing decade-old allegations is not the work of an impartial anti-graft body”.
“These are not fresh cases arising from new evidence but files opened in reaction to emergent political affiliations to intimidate key opposition figures,” the statement reads.
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“The EFCC was created to be a fearless defender of the Nigerian people’s trust, applying the law evenly to all — friend or foe, ruling party or opposition. Today, that vision appears to have been compromised.”
Abdullahi alleged that investigations into ruling party members “fade away quietly” while opposition figures are “dragged before the court of public opinion”.
“This is selective prosecution, and selective prosecution is the death of justice,” he said.
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The ADC spokesman cited the case of a former governor whose probe allegedly disappeared from public view after defecting to the APC with his political structure.
“It does not augur well for the EFCC if people think that all it takes for protection is to align with the government,” Abdullahi said.
The party urged Nigerians, civil society groups and the media to resist “the dangerous slide into dictatorship and misuse of public institutions to achieve partisan objectives”.
“The EFCC does not belong to the APC. It belongs to the Nigerian people. It is funded by taxpayers, not the ruling party,” the statement added.
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