Hon. Kayode Oladele, representing Imeko Afon/Egbado North federal constituency of Ogun State on Thursday said that Nuhu Ribadu should have been summoned to the senate instead of Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, the Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He said this was because at the time of the recoveries that are being investigated, Mr Ribadu was chairman of EFCC at the time.
He also faulted the invitation of Mr Lamorde without a plenary session being held which makes it look like a retaliation for Mrs Saraki, the wife of the senate president was summoned.
Hon. Oladele says he sees the whole situation as a way of fighting back.
“When you look at the pedigree of the person that has written the petition, we understand that he is a man that is still being investigated by the EFCC.
“We should not make that National Assembly a laughing stock of the public; we have our rules, we have our procedure.
“As I said earlier, nobody is shielding the EFCC or the ICPC but things have to be done the proper way; we will not do that in the House of Representatives.
“If you look at the scope of the investigation that they are conducting right now, it leaves a lot of sour-taste in the mouth.
“You are inviting the Chairman of EFCC to come and answer for things that he did when he was the Director of Operations under Ribadu.
“Forgetting that as a Director of Operations, he had no executive powers.
“Now you left the Chairman, you did not invite Ribadu, you did not invite the former Secretary.
“But because of this personal vendetta and to murky the water for the gentleman, you said he should come and give an account for what he did not even know anything about,” he said.
He went ahead to say that it was only right for the senate should have waited for a plenary before going on with the probe.
He queried why the EFCC probe will get immediate attention while other petitions were left piling up in the National Assembly.
He also clearly stated that his comments were not an attack on the president of the senate who clearly denied having any knowledge of the probe.
“But if you are a leader, you have to be seen to be above board.
“I won’t do what he is doing; I would rather wait for the plenary to come so that at least people will see that my hands are clean,” he concluded.
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