HDP wants Buhari to dissolve FEC, reorganise EFCC

The founder and leader of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP), Chief Ambrose Owuru has said that his party wants the Federal Executive Council (FEC) dissolved and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reorganised.
Chief Owuru, who spoke exclusively with The Daily Times in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State said that the Federal Executive Council as presently constituted was illegal because the 2015 presidential election was bought contrary to the electoral law.
“In the last election, in our view is what I call a civilian coup. It was bought. They violated the electoral laws that stipulated a limit of one billion for every presidential candidate and what we got was trillions of naira looted and wasted for that election,” he said, adding that the case instituted by the party on the election was still pending in an Abuja Federal High Court.
Chief Owuru, who has been the party’s presidential candidate in the last three presidential elections in the country added that his party’s efforts at checkmating the excesses of government were yielding positive results because, “recently you can hear INEC say they will strictly monitor campaign funds.”
On EFCC, the chief said his party, the HDP wants the anti corruption agency reorganised because it is populated by Police officers. “EFCC was established by an act of Parliament, but it is wrongly constituted. Police is rated as the worst corrupt organisation in the country,” he told our correspondent, stressing that “my party recently went to court; we want that organisation reorganised or dissolved. The case is coming up on 19 December.”
He further allege that his party was also presently in court to reprimand certain EFCC corrupt prosecutors who connived with fraudulent land speculators to sell off people’s property. “Right here in Port Harcourt, we’ve been able to identify some corrupt prosecutors who used land speculators to sell off people’s property.”
We are in possession of a copy of an originating summons from an Abuja Federal High Court in suit No:FHC/ABJ/CS/1028/2017 dated 24 October, 2017 in a case between the HDP versus the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Attorney General of the federation and Minister of Justice as well as two others as defendants.