Senator Okorocha Reports EFCC To President Buhari Over ‘Harassment’

Former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, yesterday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, to seek his intervention on his alleged “unjust harassment” from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

Okorocha, who is the senator representing Imo West senatorial district, has also accused the people he described as cowards of being behind his ordeal.

This is as the proponent of ‘Iberiberism’ has said that the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB is a terrorist organisation, accusing some powerful forces in Imo state to have engineered the branding of the group, a terrorist organization.

Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting with President

Buhari, Senator Okorocha said he also formally apprised the president on his decision to vie for the 2023 presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the 2023 elections.

He said: “I also used this opportunity to intimate Mr President of what is going on between me and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the harassment and intimidation that I’m getting from the EFCC, literally on daily basis, and to inform him that I have court judgment and two court orders for different judgments at different forums, which stop the EFCC from harassing and intimidating me. EFCC has refused to obey the law.

“And so I have to inform Mr President that EFCC should be made to obey the law that established it. And without the law, there wouldn’t be an EFCC. And the desperation with which they go about any affair that concerning me, should stop.

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“And I reminded Mr President that recall that sometimes ago, the EFCC had claimed that they recovered the sum of N5.9 billion from my account, which the court found out to be untrue.

“In other words, they were biased and they prejudged me. On that basis, the court ruled and ordered that they should not further interrogate and harass me. This has also not been obeyed.