{"id":6290,"date":"2025-08-13T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2025-08-13T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T04:30:08","slug":"tambuwal-regains-freedom-after-efcc-detention-opposition-parties-cry-out-politicisation-of-anti-corruption-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/tambuwal-regains-freedom-after-efcc-detention-opposition-parties-cry-out-politicisation-of-anti-corruption-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal Regains Freedom After EFCC Detention &#8230;.Opposition parties cry out &#8216;politicisation of anti-corruption agencies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Former Sokoto State governor and serving senator, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after spending about 28 hours in detention \u2014 a move that has sparked sharp political backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal, who honoured an EFCC invitation at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, August 11, was grilled over alleged fraudulent cash withdrawals totalling \u20a6189 billion during his tenure as Sokoto governor between 2015 and 2023. EFCC sources said the probe focuses on potential violations of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja, the former House of Representatives Speaker \u2014 and a close ally of ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar \u2014 was interrogated before being placed in custody. The conditions of his bail remain undisclosed as at press time.<\/p>\n<p>The detention triggered swift condemnation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC), which accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s administration of weaponising the EFCC to muzzle the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is nothing short of a political witch-hunt aimed at silencing key opposition figures and steering Nigeria towards a one-party state,\u201d the parties said in a joint statement, vowing to resist what they called the \u201cpoliticisation of anti-corruption agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal\u2019s arrest adds to growing tensions between the ruling APC and opposition parties, with critics warning that the use of security and anti-graft agencies against political rivals undermines Nigeria\u2019s democracy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sokoto State governor and serving senator, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) after spending about 28 hours in detention \u2014 a move that has sparked sharp political backlash. Tambuwal, who honoured an EFCC invitation at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, August 11, was grilled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[883,4019,2994,4017,1957,4018],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-custody","tag-politicisation","tag-released","tag-rivals","tag-undermines","tag-weaponising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}