The Peoples Democratic Party has advised the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr Abdulraheed Bawa, to re-engineer and restore professionalism in the anti-graft agency.
The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja urged Bawa to avoid the pitfalls of his immediate predecessor.
Ologbondiyan advised him to resist all partisan pressures to use the agency as a tool for political persecution, harassment of dissenting voices, settling of personal scores as well as personal enrichment.
He said that such tendencies eroded professionalism in the EFCC, compromised its activities and diminished the public confidence with regard to fairness, impartiality and even-handedness in the handling of cases.
Ologbondiyan noted that the EFCC was established to fight corruption and not as a tool for oppression and intimidation of innocent Nigerians for political and other unjustified reasons.
