Shehu Sani
The former
lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani has
reiterated that the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), led by retired Major
General Muhammadu Buhari is doing everything to ensure that he is quiet.
Sani made
the allegation that the FGN is using his accuser, through the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, to “frame” him in the extortion scandal.
It would be
recalled that two houses and an office of the embattled Senator Shehu Sani had
been searched in Abuja by the operatives of the EFCC, being part of the ongoing
probe of the former lawmaker for alleged extortion of $24,000 from the Chairman
of ASD Motors, Alhaji Sani Dauda.
In his
petition, Alhaji Sani Dauda had claimed that the former senator demanded N4m from
him to give to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, and four
other judges to influence some pending cases in court.
However,
Justice Tanko Muhammad denied links with Shehu Sani.
Speaking
from the EFCC detention facility, Senator Shehu Sani said: “The allegations of
‘extortion’ against me are baseless, fact-less, unfounded, hollow and
unsubstantial.
“It is a
scripted stream of mischievous concoctions and utter fabrications using a
puppet state agent; all aimed at splashing faeces and mud on me.
“The
extortion allegation is nothing but a wholesale falsehood, packaged in a
phantom anti-graft facade to taint, stain and mute me. That shall never happen
if I am alive.
“I have made
my statement and provided all my facts against their package of lies and I
demand the EFCC to make public all the sheets of our statements and supporting
documents for the world to see.
“My
detention is unfair, unjust, prearranged and politically motivated.
“Alhaji Sani
Dauda and his hidden sponsors have not been able to provide any proof of their
allegations. I’m unjustly incarcerated on the grounds of an arranged two-page
petition backed with no evidential or documentary proof.
“Fascism
thrives in frame up of its critics.
“They claim
extortion and here they are closing my bank accounts, searching my houses and
offices and demanding I declare my assets, of which I have already done that at
the CCB (Code of Conduct Bureau) last year when I left the Senate.
“Frame-up
cannot silence me!”
“I have
never ever met with the CJN or any judge or judges or ever called directly or
indirectly to offer to give or to give directly or indirectly any form of
gratification from Alhaji Sani Dauda.
“I have
never ever discussed with ASD on any form of bribe or gratification to be given
to any judge or any EFCC official.
“The bribe
story is phantom, the bribe story is a fake, imaginative work of fiction,
cruelly crafted to smear me, to frame me and to justify my persecution.
“The bribe
story is a heap of blatant lies and outright falsehood concocted and
fabricated, using a front and the EFCC to premiere a state drama.
“ASD is a
barely educated front for a state mission.
“Criminalising
me or ‘framing me’ will not silence me, bend me or compromise me."
