President Muhammadu Buhari says there is a huge amount of foreign currency flooding the country intended to influence the outcome of the general election beginning on Saturday.
According to Garba Shehu,
the president’s senior special assistant on media and publicity, Buhari
raised the alarm during the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on
Wednesday.
Shehu said the president accused some politicians of
flouting money laundering regulations in their desperate bid to capture
political power.
He, however, commended the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for successfully tracking the money
in “millions of United States dollars”.
According to him, the
EFCC success followed the presidential directive to investigative
agencies to probe a number of high profile cases.
He reassured
the nation of his administration’s determination to wage relentless war
against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Buhari also
reiterated his appeal to Nigerians, especially politicians, to place the
interest of the “country above all others, as they troop out to cast
their votes in the coming elections’’.
Shehu’s statement comes hours after the EFCC alerted Nigerians that there were fake dollar notes in circulation.
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