{"id":233244,"date":"2025-07-28T03:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/how-okowas-%e2%82%a61-3-trillion-efcc-charge-disappeared-sule-lamido-reveals\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T03:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T03:21:22","slug":"how-okowas-%e2%82%a61-3-trillion-efcc-charge-disappeared-sule-lamido-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/how-okowas-%e2%82%a61-3-trillion-efcc-charge-disappeared-sule-lamido-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"How Okowa\u2019s \u20a61.3 Trillion EFCC Charge Disappeared \u2013 Sule Lamido reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Okowa\u2019s \u20a61.3 Trillion EFCC Charge Disappeared \u2013 Sule Lamido reveals<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>How Okowa\u2019s \u20a61.3 Trillion EFCC Charge Disappeared \u2013 Sule Lamido reveals<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Governor of Jigawa State,\u00a0Sule Lamido, has lamented that Nigeria is no longer the same country it used to be 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvezio kvezio-clearfix kvezio-post-inline kvezio-float-center kvezio-align-center kvezio-column-1\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Governor Alex Otti Is Transforming Abia\u2019s Economy \u2013 Chief Nwaobilor Speaks Out\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QnEsD0LfBHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He stated that President Bola <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>has totally changed the country\u2019s political environment and is determined to destroy the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido claimed that opposition politicians in Nigeria are panicking because of what he described as President Tinubu\u2019s imperial acts against the opposition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kvezio kvezio-clearfix kvezio-post-middle kvezio-float-center kvezio-align-center kvezio-column-1\">\n<div id=\"kvezio-178990-1871186205\" class=\"kvezio-container kvezio-type-image \" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WPAdBlock\" data-adid=\"178990\" data-type=\"image\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" itemprop=\"url\" class=\"kvezio-link\" href=\"https:\/\/afnews.sumofunnel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Specil-Edition-of-Gov.-Alex-Otti-One-Year-In-Office-2024.pdf\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking in his office on Tuesday in Kano, he alleged that <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>is using instruments of power to coerce the opposition into joining the APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/tinubu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu <\/a>is using state institutions to crush the opposition through intimidation, blackmail, harassment, and government patronage. A clear example is Okowa, who was the PDP vice presidential candidate. He suddenly faced charges of 1.3 trillion naira from the EFCC, and after joining the APC, those charges disappeared,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Lamido said.<\/p>\n<p>He added,\u00a0<em>\u201cIt is just like Oshiomhole said, no matter your crime, once you join the APC, you will be forgiven. That is why people who feel guilty are joining the APC. This is a serious danger to our democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>People are now asking what to do. In that panic, there is talk of coalitions. But I have said before, the coalition we had in 2014 was organic. There were established structures like CPC under Buhari, ACN under Tinubu, ANPP under governors, and even PDP members like the President, Speaker, and governors who joined the alliance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cToday, the proposed coalition is just a gathering of individuals. Labour Party, PDP, and others are not uniting as political institutions but as individuals like Atiku, Peter Obi, El-Rufai, and others. That is why I am not part of it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/afnews.ng\/how-okowas-%E2%82%A61-3-trillion-efcc-disappeared-sule-lamido\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Okowa\u2019s \u20a61.3 Trillion EFCC Charge Disappeared \u2013 Sule Lamido reveals How Okowa\u2019s \u20a61.3 Trillion EFCC Charge Disappeared \u2013 Sule Lamido reveals \u00a0 The former Governor of Jigawa State,\u00a0Sule Lamido, has lamented that Nigeria is no longer the same country it used to be 25 years ago. He stated that President Bola Tinubu has totally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}