Close Menu
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    Trending
    • Tension Rises As Natasha Plans Plenary Comeback Today Despite Senate Pushback
    • ‘Your Online Life Matters’, US Links Visa Approval To Social Media Access
    • Royal Rivalry Turns Violent As Sanusi, Bayero Loyalists Clash At Kano Palace
    • ASUU Branches In States Stop Lectures Over Delayed June Salaries
    • ‘It’s All Tissue Of Lies’, Ekiti Governor Refutes ADC Defection Rumours
    • Houses Destroyed, Properties Lost As Flood Ravages Ondo Communities After Heavy Downpour
    • WAFCON: Babajide Pays Tribute To Jota After Scoring In Falcons’ Victory Over Tunisia
    • Arsenal Close In On Gyokeres Deal After Face-To-Face Talks
    Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
    NEWS POINT NIGERIANEWS POINT NIGERIA
    UBA 720X90
    • HOME
    • NEWS

      Tension Rises As Natasha Plans Plenary Comeback Today Despite Senate Pushback

      July 8, 2025

      ‘Your Online Life Matters’, US Links Visa Approval To Social Media Access

      July 8, 2025

      Royal Rivalry Turns Violent As Sanusi, Bayero Loyalists Clash At Kano Palace

      July 8, 2025

      ASUU Branches In States Stop Lectures Over Delayed June Salaries

      July 8, 2025

      ‘It’s All Tissue Of Lies’, Ekiti Governor Refutes ADC Defection Rumours

      July 7, 2025
    • COLUMN

      There Is Pain Behind That Smile. Just Do Your Bit – By Dr Hassan Gimba

      July 6, 2025

      What Can Nigeria Learn From China’s Electricity Revolution? – By Dr Dakuku Peterside

      July 6, 2025

      Amaechi: Nigerian Politicians And Doublespeak – By Kazeem Akintunde

      July 6, 2025

      Remembering ‘Watergate Scandal’ And Danger Of Crippling Opposition – By Martins Oloja

      July 6, 2025

      Don’t Kill Yourself Because He’s Cheating – By Funke Egbemode

      July 6, 2025
    • EDUCATION

      13 Countries Offering Free Or Low-Cost PhD Programmes For Non-Citizens

      January 25, 2025

      NECO: Abia, Imo Top Performing States In Two Years, Katsina, Zamfara Come Last

      October 3, 2024

      NBTE Accredits 17 Programmes At Federal Polytechnic Kabo

      August 20, 2024

      15 Most Expensive Universities In Nigeria

      May 19, 2024

      FULL LIST: Tinubu Appoints Former SGF Yayale, Ex-Governor Yuguda, Muhammad Abacha, Jega In Universities’ Governing Councils

      May 18, 2024
    • INTERNATIONAL

      Iran President, Masoud Pezeshkian Says Israel Attempted To Assassinate Him

      July 7, 2025

      Trump, Brazil’s Lula Clash Over Politically Charged Coup Trial

      July 7, 2025

      Israeli Army Targets Gaza City With Heavy Strikes, Killing 39

      July 6, 2025

      French Intelligence Claims China Trying To Foil Global Sale Of Rafale Jets

      July 6, 2025

      Israel Sending Negotiating Team To Qatar For Gaza Ceasefire Talks

      July 6, 2025
    • JUDICIARY

      FULL LIST: Judicial Council Recommends Appointment Of 11 Supreme Court Justices

      December 6, 2023

      Supreme Court: Judicial Council Screens 22 Nominees, Candidates Face DSS, Others

      November 29, 2023

      FULL LIST: Judicial Commission Nominates 22 Justices For Elevation To Supreme Court

      November 16, 2023

      Seven Key Issues Resolved By Seven Supreme Court Judges

      October 26, 2023

      FULL LIST: CJN To Swear In Falana’s Wife, 57 Others As SANs November 27

      October 12, 2023
    • POLITICS

      What Peter Obi May Lose If He Joins Coalition As VP Candidate

      May 25, 2025

      Atiku Moves To Unseat Wike’s Damagum As PDP Chairman, Backs Suswam As Replacement

      April 15, 2024

      Edo’s Senator Matthew Uroghide, Others Defect To APC

      April 13, 2024

      Finally, Wike Opens Up On Rift With Peter Odili

      April 2, 2024

      El-Rufa’i’s Debt Burden: APC Suspends Women Leader For Criticising Kaduna Gov

      March 31, 2024
    • SPORTS

      WAFCON: Babajide Pays Tribute To Jota After Scoring In Falcons’ Victory Over Tunisia

      July 7, 2025

      Arsenal Close In On Gyokeres Deal After Face-To-Face Talks

      July 7, 2025

      THROWBACK: How I Became Known As Dodo Mayana – Peter Rufai

      July 6, 2025

      Zubimendi Joined Gunners For £60m – How Arsenal Signed Arteta’s ‘Obsession’

      July 6, 2025

      Best Of African Women’s Football On Display As WAFCON Kicks Off

      July 6, 2025
    • MORE
      • AFRICA
      • ANALYSIS
      • BUSINESS
      • ENTERTAINMENT
      • FEATURED
      • LENS SPEAK
      • INFO – TECH
      • INTERVIEW
      • NIGERIA DECIDES
      • OPINION
      • Personality Profile
      • Picture of the month
      • Science
      • Special Project
      • Videos
      • Weekend Sports
    NEWS POINT NIGERIANEWS POINT NIGERIA
    UBA 720X90
    Home - Desperate Opposition Figures In Kogi Behind Calls For Yahaya Bello’s Arrest Despite Court Process – Activists

    Desperate Opposition Figures In Kogi Behind Calls For Yahaya Bello’s Arrest Despite Court Process – Activists

    By Farouk AbbasMay 25, 2024
    f071a872 bc20 439e abac 40ace69e2004

    HUNDREDS of activists, on Saturday, stormed the streets of Lagos to protest alleged underground moves by some desperate opposition figures in Kogi State as well as other perceived political enemies to unleash terror on the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, using the platform of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

    The activists, who addressed a press conference and also staged a huge rally, condemned calls by a group called Zero Corruption Agenda in collaboration with another group, Kogites United Against Corruption, for the EFCC to ignore court orders guaranteing Bello’s fundamental human rights and effect an arrest despite the ongoing court process.

    While raising the alarm that there were speculations going around that some desperate politicians were “even allegedly planning to use gunmen dressed in fake military uniforms to attack Yahaya Bello’s residences”, they called on the police and other relevant security agencies to be vigilant to prevent anarchy in the country.

    UBA

    According to them, many Nigerians already suspect that the alleged “endless attack on the former Governor, his family members and even innocent children by the EFCC in the most unprofessional way, despite revelations that showed he was actually protected by the law, have deep political undertones.

    Comrade Segun Abegunde, who briefed the press on behalf of the CSOs, under the joint umbrella of Citizens Action Against Lawlessness, insisted that the desperation by some opposition figures and Yahaya Bello’s political enemies to hide under the purported fight against corruption to call for the arrest of a man who has a court order for his fundamental human rights to be protected and who is already in court with the EFCC, “almost confirms this insinuation of an evil plan against him by some interested politicians, using the EFCC platform.”

    WIDGET ADS

    “This is not difficult to detect, having seen the composition of the so-called Kogites who made these curious calls, even in London. The videos exposed their ethnic leaning as they were speaking the language of the aggrieved politicians in Kogi State,” the activists said.

    They alleged that opposition political parties were using the EFCC to fight political battles in Kogi State and called on the ruling Party to be vigilant.

    Thomas Sankara African Leadership Prize

    “The tribunal judgement on the last governorship election in Kogi State is coming up on Monday May 27th. The desperation by the opposition to have Yahaya Bello in custody has increased exponentially as that date approaches. There seems to be a determination to either keep him out of circulation while they try to steal APC’s mandate in the state or to completely eliminate him for whatever reasons only known to them.

    “Also, considering the way and manner the EFCC chairman has taken the Yahaya Bello matter so personal, it is glaring that a Yahaya Bello in the custody of the EFCC is not going to be safe at all,” they stated.

    Nigerian TAX Reform - Federal Goverment

    Abegunde said, “The courts are there to mediate between government and citizens and between two or more contending interests and the court’s intervention is sacrosanct until overturned by a superior Court.

    “The rallies, both home and abroad, calling for jettisoning of the due process of law and for the EFCC to arrest Yahaya Bello, court orders or no court orders, sponsored by the opposition and his political enemies within, are not only reckless but dangerous to our polity and absolutely condemnable.

    “Such calls have now given credence to the allegations that some powerful political forces are after Yahaya Bello, not because of corruption allegations, but that they are actually after his life. What have the military got to do with the EFCC that a group would be calling for military intervention to arrest a single citizen in a case where he is already a defendant?”

    National Orientation Agency Page UP
    National Orientation Agency - Down

    Emphasising the urgent need for President Bola Tinubu to call the anti-graft body to order before it is too late, the CSOs pointed out that the so-called Kogites call for the commission to use military force to arrest the former governor, even when his date to appear in court had already been fixed, was not only reckless but dangerous to the nation’s polity.

    “There is even a speculation going around  now, which may be credible, that some desperate politicians are even allegedly planning to use gunmen dressed in fake military uniforms to attack Yahaya Bello’s residences.

    “We call on the police and other relevant security agencies to be vigilant. We also call on President Bola Tinubu to immediately call EFCC to order. The Commission seems to have offered its platform for enemies of the former governor to execute their plans against him and the President must wade in, especially with the facts on ground that EFCC has displayed flagrant disregard for the rule of law, all the way, in handling this matter.

    “We call on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, to, as a matter of urgency, call the EFCC to order with a view to staying off political interference. The Commission should concentrate strictly on its anti-corruption mandate by staying within the enabling laws that established it. The EFCC should not be identified with promoting anarchy, no matter what.

    “The court processes should be allowed to run their course without disruption. That is when democracy and rule of law can be said to be functioning in our nation,” the activists stressed.

    8a054580 f683 4032 b37d 80c4c678ecba

    Court Kogi Opposition Yahaya Bello
    Share. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp LinkedIn Telegram Email

    Related Posts

    Tension Rises As Natasha Plans Plenary Comeback Today Despite Senate Pushback

    July 8, 2025

    ‘Your Online Life Matters’, US Links Visa Approval To Social Media Access

    July 8, 2025

    Royal Rivalry Turns Violent As Sanusi, Bayero Loyalists Clash At Kano Palace

    July 8, 2025

    ASUU Branches In States Stop Lectures Over Delayed June Salaries

    July 8, 2025
    Add A Comment
    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    Latest Posts

    Tension Rises As Natasha Plans Plenary Comeback Today Despite Senate Pushback

    July 8, 2025

    ‘Your Online Life Matters’, US Links Visa Approval To Social Media Access

    July 8, 2025

    Royal Rivalry Turns Violent As Sanusi, Bayero Loyalists Clash At Kano Palace

    July 8, 2025

    ASUU Branches In States Stop Lectures Over Delayed June Salaries

    July 8, 2025

    ‘It’s All Tissue Of Lies’, Ekiti Governor Refutes ADC Defection Rumours

    July 7, 2025
    Advertisement
    WIDGET ADS
    News Point NG
    © 2025 NEWS POINT NIGERIA Developed by ENGRMKS & CO.
    • Home
    • About us
    • Disclaimer
    • Our Advert Rates
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

    Join Us On WhatsApp