The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ola Olukoyede, has vowed to follow the prosecution of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to logical conclusion.

Olukoyede disclosed this on Tuesday during an interactive session with media executives in Abuja

The anti-graft chairman sworn that he would resign as EFCC chairman if Bello is not prosecuted.

The EFCC boss said; I called Yahaya Bello, as a serving governor, to come to my office to clear himself. I shouldnt have done that.

But he said because a certain senator has planted over 100 journalists in my office, he would not come.

I told him that he would be allowed to use my private gate to give him a cover, but he said my men should come to his village to interrogate him.

Olukoyede said the EFCC did not violate any law while trying to arrest the former governor from his residence.

Rather, we have obeyed the law. I inherited the case and I didnt create it. Why has he not submitted himself to the law? he asked.

I have arraigned two past governors who have been granted bail now ” Willie Obiano and Abdulfatah Ahmed.

The EFCC chairman promised that anyone responsible for impeding Bello’s arrest from his home in Abuja will suffer the full force of the law.

We would have gone after him since January but we waited for the court order, Olukoyede said.

As early as 7 am, my men were there. Over 50 of them. They mounted surveillance.

We met over 30 armed policemen there. We would have exchanged fire and there would have been casualties.

My men were about to move in when the governor of Kogi drove in and they later changed the narrative.

He vowed that all those who have dipped their hands into the nations coffers would be investigated and prosecuted.

If I can do Obiano, Abdulfatah Ahmed and Chief Olu Agunloye, my kinsman, why not Yahaya Bello? Olukoyede concluded.

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