By Henry Umoru
Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, ahead of the 2027 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo has taken a swipe at calls for the removal of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, over the freezing of Osun State Government’s accounts.
Adebayo declared that President Bola Tinubu, not the Chairman of the EFCC, should resign over the president’s directive reversing the freezing of the Osun State Government’s accounts.
He argued that while political pressure has mounted on EFCC Chairman Ola Olukoyede to step aside, the anti-graft agency merely exercised powers granted to it by law by obtaining a court order freezing the accounts under investigation.
According to him, the real constitutional breach occurred when President Tinubu publicly directed the EFCC to vacate the court-backed action, describing such intervention as an assault on the rule of law and the independence of law enforcement institutions.
