Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has accused the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa of demanding $2 million as bribe from him.
Governor Matawalle made the allegation amid the festering brickbats between the governor and the anti-graft agency.
In a statement on Wednesday, Matawalle called for Bawa’s resignation, saying he had questions to answer on corruption.
But the EFCC Chairman responded that he had nothing to hide and asked Matawalle to petition appropriate authorities if he had any evidence against him.
In an interview with BBC Hausa Service, Matawalle insisted that Bawa could not be trusted.
His words : “It is not just to always blame governors. It is not only governors who have treasury, the federal government also has. What does the EFCC boss do to them? As he is claiming he has evidence on governors, let him show to the world evidence of those at the federal level.
“If he exits office, people will surely know he is not an honest person. I have evidence against him. Let him vacate office, I am telling you within 10 seconds probably more than 200 people will bring evidences of bribe he collected from them. He knows what he requested from me but I declined.
“He requested a bribe of $2 million from me and I have evidence of this. He knows the house we met, he invited me and told me the conditions. He told me governors were going to his office but I did not. If I don’t have evidence, I won’t say this.”
EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren told Daily Trust he had not seen the story so he could not respond.
When alerted that the accusation was made on BBC Hausa Service by Matawalle, he said he could not speak Hausa and asked that the story link be sent for a response.
