Sources have revealed the reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari is uncomfortable with the embattled chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibrahim Lamorde.
On who would substitute Lamorde as EFCC head, the source acknowledged that Buhari may choose to go “against public expectation as was the case in the speculations of Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau emerging the NSA.”
“But barring any last minute changes, Hamid Ibrahim Alli, is likely to take Larmode’s place. I hear he is already being screened by the Department of State Services.”
Informed insiders in the commission and the presidency told Daily Post that contrary insinuations that Larmode’s removal is connected to the petition filed against him by George Uboh at the Senate, President Buhari has earlier not been positively disposed to having Larmode in his anti-corruption crusade owing to his “past records and antecedents”.
A presidential source, who asked not to be named, said: “Most of what Uboh raised in the petition is what President Buhari is already in the know of. There are even more unfavourable things he knows of the present chairman that are not yet a public knowledge.
“Don’t forget that Larmode had headed the EFCC as acting chairman at some point. What he did or achieved within that period (he acted as chairman) is one that Mr. President has critically appraised and found out that he can’t be the man for the job”.
“I can assure you that it would take a miracle for Larmode to remain in office beyond the next one week. The signs are very obvious. Even stalwarts of the APC are not comfortable with him being there.
“Ever since Akpabio took that advert space in a national newspaper to distance PDP members in the Senate from the plan by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to probe the EFCC chairman, Mr. President has come under undue pressure to act fast to remove Larmode from that seat. To me, the whole scenario is one that unites the divergent interests in the ruling party in view of what the party members are asking of the President.”
”But for Larmode, he won’t likely survive the current storm. It is bad enough for an EFCC boss to be in the eye of the storm. The President is not one that is likely to carry an extra baggage. He looks set to cash in on the moment to take him (Larmode) out of the job.”
It should be recalled that George Uboh, a petitioner who appeared before the Nigerian Senate committee on August alleged that Lamorde gave choice properties taken from the former Bayelsa state governor, DSP Alamieyesigha and others, to Usman Lamorde, his younger brother.
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