New Telegraph-Admin 
Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress have called on all sitting Governors, former governors and politically exposed persons to stand against the unjust persecution of former Governor of Kogi State by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Chairman, Tinubu Media Support Group, TMSG, Jesutega Onokpasa, who briefed journalists on behalf of others, described as utter travesty the former Governor’s unjust prosecution in the court of public opinion as against the court of law.
He said it was a coordinated witch-hunt “against a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a former governor of one of the states of this country.” Flanked by Abubarkar Iliyasu and Felix Etedjere, Onokpasa spoke in Abuja yesterday, saying: “Today it is Yahaya Bello’s turn, tomorrow, it might be yours.” Onokpasa said categorically that the mischievous narrative of the former Governor evading arrest was reckless.
“As far as we are aware, former Governor Bello had obtained a court order retraining the EFCC from arresting, arraigning or prosecuting him and we state categorically that he was perfectly entitled in law to place reliance on the protection of the law, indeed the same law, which binds all of us in a civilised society,” the APC chieftains said. According to them, the motto of the EFCC is that no one is above the law and that starts with the EFCC, itself, which is certainly not and cannot possibly be above the law.
Onokpasa queried why the counsel to former Governor Bello’s political adversaries was at the same time persecuting him on behalf of the EFCC “apart from one of them most irresponsibly threatening to send the armed forces against him.” He said: “The remedy against an order of court is to vacate the order or to appeal the same and most certainly not for law enforcement to thump its nose against the court and decompose into lawlessness and brigandage.”
