Bwala Speaks On Governors Making Concerted Efforts To Destroy Democracy

Lawyer Daniel Bwala has accused governors of trying to undermine the country’s democracy.

Sixteen state governments have filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court to contest the legality of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the nation’s anti-graft agency.

Bwala, a former member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), believes this action reflects the governors’ intent to frustrate democracy in Nigeria.

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“The governors in Nigeria, they are making concerted efforts to destroy this democracy,” he said on Tuesday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief.

He stated that governors have not done much in developing their states and have pushed the responsibilities of governance to the Federal Government.

“I have said when President Tinubu started, when these allocations started moving; when nobody was looking at the responsibility of the federating unit in administering governors, when all pressures were pushed and directed at President Tinubu. I said that we have taken our minds and attention from the fact that this allocation we are talking about,” he said.

“The majority of this allocation goes to the state and the development is at the state level and local level and nobody cares to look at governors and probe them on their affairs.”

He accused governors of orchestrating corruption in Nigeria, linking it to the recent push to abolish the EFCC.

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Calls for the dissolution of the EFCC have intensified in recent months, with the Supreme Court scheduled to hear the governors’ lawsuit challenging the agency’s legality today, October 22.

However, Wilson Uwujaren, the Director of Public Affairs at the EFCC, stated that the push for the agency’s dissolution stems from governors “feeling the heat” from the anti-graft body’s activities. He added that if the EFCC were to be abolished, Nigeria would struggle to survive.

“We are really shocked by what is happening,” Uwujaren said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s breakfast show The Morning Brief. 

“Nigerians should see through this shenanigan and oppose it because I don’t see how this country can survive without the EFCC with the kind of corruption problem that we have. Nigeria cannot do without the EFCC.”

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