National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Muazu is not under investigation as he never embezzled money during his eight-year tenure as Governor of Bauchi State, the party has said.
According to its national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, Muazu, like many other former governors, was invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to respond to some allegations, but that was all.
Describing media reports on the national chairman since his emergence as completely false and baseless, he blamed the vicious scheme by opponents of PDP to distract the new national chairman from his determination and commitment to rebuild and reposition the PDP as the pre-eminent party in Nigeria.
“For the purposes of these opponents, the PDP wishes to state the following: that the true position is that at the end of his tenure as Governor of Bauchi State, Mu’azu, like many other governors who had completed their tenures, was invited by the EFCC to respond to some petitions. Mu’azu was never invited again by the EFCC on any other issue”, Metuh said.
“The succeeding government, elected on the platform of the defunct opposition ANPP in 2007, instituted a panel of inquiry, which went ahead to issue a White Paper against Governor Mu’azu despite the fact that he did not appear before it.
“In the exercise of his lawful rights, Mu’azu challenged the White Paper in suit number BA/295m/2009 at the Bauchi State High Court. The suit was heard by no other judge than the Chief Judge of Bauchi State, Justice Mohammed Ibrahim Zango, who after hearing all the arguments, set aside the whole findings and quashed it”.
