Senator Ali Ndume
Former Senate Leader Ali Ndume has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of pampering the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
The Borno Senator accused the anti-graft commission of treating Ekweremadu with kid gloves.
The Nation quoted Ndume as stating that interrogation by EFCC for suspected crime or anything is nothing new but that it appeared Ekweremadu was being treated preferentially.
He said: “He said: “I find very strange and not happy with the way EFCC is handling the investigation of the Deputy Senate President, particularly and, by extension, even the way the Inspector General of Police is handling the case of Saraki.
“Everybody is equal before the law and that is what it should be. EFCC invited him, he was known to be sick and he went to a hospital not under the custody of EFCC.
“Ekweremadu should have gone to EFCC hospital because they will even give him better treatment than whichever hospital he has gone to. Now people like me are beginning to suspect that the EFCC is giving him soft landing.
“EFCC is treating some people preferentially and that is wrong. I don’t think the EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, is doing the right thing by doing that. They should be treated equally, not even Ekweremadu, Ali Ndume or even Buhari.
“They invited Ekweremadu and as they were interrogating him, he said he was not feeling well and they said he should go to hospital and come back.
“That I find very strange. I am not saying he should not be accorded the respect of getting medical attention but if I go into EFCC, I can as well say I am sick and go.
“Tomorrow when I come, I can say my blood pressure has gone up again, another day I can say I have headache or fever. If that is the way they will handle their investigation, then I begin to get worried.”