If
Hehehe....feelers reaching Fidelis Chidi blog from official quarters are anything to go
by, then the embattled chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Larmode, will be on his way out of the
anti-graft agency in the coming days.
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Informed sources in the
commission and the presidency told our correspondent that contrary to
the growing permutation that Larmode’s ouster is tied to the petition filed against him by Mr. George Uboh at the Senate,
President Muhammadu Buhari has earlier not been favourably disposed to
having Larmode champion his anti-corruption crusade owing to his “past
records and antecedents”.
According to a presidential source who
warned that his name should not be mentioned, “Most of what Uboh raised
in the petition is what President Buhari is already in the know of.
There are even more unfavourable things he knows of the present chairman
that are not yet a public knowledge.
“Don’t
forget that Larmode had headed the EFCC as acting chairman at some
point. What he did or achieved within that period (he acted as chairman)
is one that Mr. President has critically appraised and found out that
he can’t be the man for the job”.
The source continued that, “I
can assure you that it would take a miracle for Larmode to remain in
office beyond the next one week. The signs are very obvious. Even
stalwarts of the APC are not comfortable with him being there.
“Ever
since Akpabio took that advert space in a national newspaper to
distance PDP members in the Senate from the plan by the Senate Committee
on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to probe the EFCC chairman,
Mr. President has come under undue pressure to act fast to remove
Larmode from that seat. To me, the whole scenario is one that unites the
divergent interests in the ruling party in view of what the party
members are asking of the President.”
On who is to replace
Lamorde, the source first acknowledged that the President has his way
and may choose to go “against public expectation as was the case in the
speculations of Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau emerging the NSA. But barring
any last minute changes, Hamid Ibrahim Alli, is likely to take
Larmode’s place. I hear he is already being screened by the Department
of State Services.
”But
for Larmode, he won’t likely survive the current storm. It is bad
enough for an EFCC boss to be in the eye of the storm. The President is
not one that is likely to carry an extra baggage. He looks set to cash
in on the moment to take him (Larmode) out of the job.”
Also at
the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, an insider told us that,
“everybody is currently ill at ease here. Most of us are already aware
of the possible removal of Larmode in the coming days. But our fear is
the shakeup the new man, who some top officials believe is likely to be
Hamid Alli, will likely come to the job with.
“It is even said in
hush tones here that it’s in a bid to escape any backlash that may come
after his removal that the chairman traveled out of the country. I
believe he may not be where many think he is presently. He is smarter
than that,” the source said.
We attempted to speak
officially with other staff of the commission, but most of them
expressed fear, saying they wouldn’t want to be part of the ongoing
rumour.
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Thursday, August 27, 2015
Buhari already uncomfortable with Larmode – Insider
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