{"id":22172,"date":"2019-11-01T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22172"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:37:36","slug":"22172-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=22172","title":{"rendered":"Bullion vans: Magu shuns question on Tinubu petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on Friday refused to answer a question regarding a petition submitted against All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu.<br \/>\nMagu, who held a press conference in Abuja, had lamented the high rate of corruption in the country especially among the youths who perpetrate internet fraud.<br \/>\nThe EFCC boss had also stated that many non-governmental organisations operating in the North-East were being used for money laundering.<br \/>\nHowever, when\u00a0The PUNCH\u00a0asked Magu to give an update on the petition submitted against Tinubu, Magu, who appeared agitated, said, \u201cYou want me to talk about a petition here? Next question please.\u201d<br \/>\nThe PUNCH\u00a0reports that the Convener, Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, had last week submitted a petition against Tinubu for having two cash-laden bullion vans in his compound on the eve of the presidential elections in February.<br \/>\nTinubu had stated during an interview that the money belonged to him and he was free to distribute it to his supporters since he was not a government official.<br \/>\nIncidentally, the EFCC is currently prosecuting the son-in-law of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, for attempting to distribute money ahead of the same election.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Adeyanju said in a Facebook post that he had not been contacted by the EFCC since he submitted the petition.<br \/>\nBy <strong>The Punch<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, on Friday refused to answer a question regarding a petition submitted against All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu. Magu, who held a press conference in Abuja, had lamented the high rate of corruption in the country especially among the youths who perpetrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,56],"class_list":["post-22172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-magu","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}