The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised the alarm over planned campaigns of calumny by some politicians and groups with vested interests in suspects being investigated or facing prosecution by the commission.Its spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said this in a statement in Abuja.

According to Oyewale, a motley crowd of paid jobbers has been recruited by some disgruntled elements to orchestrate campaigns of calumny through sponsored media attacks.

“The attack is targeting the Chairman of the EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, and the institution with phantom allegations of political bias in the execution of the commission’s mandate. “Their objective is to befuddle the work of the commission and, through scaremongering, intimidate the commission into a timid mode,” he said.

The EFCC spokesman said the essence was to make the commission afraid of investigating opposition politicians for fear of being labelled partisan. He said the campaign was likely to intensify as the political space becomes charged in the months leading to the 2027 general election.

Oyewale said any political actor, whether in the ruling party or opposition party, with corruption baggage has no hiding place from the operational radar and dynamics of the commission.

He said the commission had no alliance or working relationship with any political party, noting that all these facts were unassailable.
He said the EFCC would not be pressured or blackmailed into making public disclosures of politically exposed persons being investigated for alleged corruption cases. “The EFCC reiterates its commitment to justice, without fear or favour, in the fulfilment of its mandate.”