The former governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), who is facing a 37-count money laundering charge alongside his son, Abdulaziz, has threatened to drag the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to court over alleged mysterious death of two key witnesses billed to testify against him.

Nyako, in a statement he issued through his lawyer Mr. M.M Bakari?, yesterday,? said the entire process that led to his arrest and arraignment, was ?”a stunt stage-managed by the leadership of the EFCC to achieve some public relations goal and probably anchor them on a pedestal that will impress the new leadership of the countraåy”.

Denying his alleged connection with the death of the witnesses, Nyako accused the EFCC leadership under Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde of “trying to persecute, rather than prosecute a few high profile personalities in order to avert falling victims of the broom of change sweeping across all facets of the country”.

It will be recalled that the EFCC had in a counter-affidavit it filed against Nyako and his son who is a serving Senator, Abdulaziz, informed the trial court that the two witnesses, Ma’aji Mohammed Iro and Abdulmalik Dalhatu, were found dead shortly after they came to its office and ?testified against the accused former governor.

Late Iro was the then Regional Manager of Zenith Bank Plc, North East, Nigeria?, and was in charge of the accounts of Adamawa State with the bank.

The anti-graft agency alleged that ?Nyako siphoned over N40billion from the Adamawa State treasury and used late Iro and made several cash lodgements running into billions of Naira into the accounts of several companies?.

It said that the bank manager made confessional statements and adduced several incriminating evidence ?against the former governor before his death.

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