Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples
Democratic Party, Presidential candidate has condemned the alleged detention of
his son-in-law and lawyer by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC).
Atiku, via a Tweet on his Twitter
handle on Monday, said: “My son in law and lawyer have been detained, one for 3
weeks and the other recently. They are paying the price for supporting me. I
urge those now persecuting them to remember that a government’s mandate is to
pursue peace and justice for all, and not just those who support them.’
Atiku’s tweet is coming two days
after he raised an alarm of alleged desperate moves to make him concede and
congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari, following the February 23 election.
In a statement by his media adviser,
Paul Ibe, on Saturday, the PDP candidate said his son-in-law, who is also the
finance director of his group of companies, was arrested in Abuja.
According to the statement,
officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) allegedly
invaded the Maitama residence of Babalele in the nation’s capital.
Atiku insisted that he would under
no circumstance “mortgage the mandate of Nigerians as freely expressed on the
23rd of February 2019.”
However, the EFCC and other relevant
agencies are yet to react to the allegations by the former vice president.
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