Toyin Saraki was granted Administrative Bail by EFCC

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has granted the wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, administrative bail after she was invited for a chat with the commission for two days over allegations of corruption.

The bail came as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has distanced the party from the travails of Mrs. Saraki in the hands of the anti-graft commission.

Mrs. Saraki, who defied the early morning rain yesterday to continue with the grilling started on Tuesday, was granted administrative bail after about five hours with the investigators.

Sources at the EFCC said the former Kwara State first lady was invited by the commission over the large inflow of money into her private company during her husband’s tenure as Kwara State governor.

EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, who confirmed the bail, explained that it had  not exonerated Mrs. Saraki from the offence she was accused of.

Uwujaren said Mrs. Saraki could be invited at any time necessary for further interrogation.

Meanwhile, Oyegun while speaking  at a press conference at the party’s secretariat in Abuja,  said there was nothing untoward about the probe of Mrs. Saraki by the anti-corruption agency which was merely discharging its functions, adding that the senate president’s wife case  remained mere allegations until it is proven.

He said APC believed that the EFCC should be allowed to do its job without interference. “I want to assure you without doubting that the APC absolutely has nothing to do with the probe. She’s not on trial by the way. It is an investigation that has to do with the senate president’s wife.

“We are completely, totally, absolutely innocent of it. What we have not done like in the PDP days is to rush and interfere with the processes of the EFCC which our president has made quite clearly, everybody should be ready to carry out their legitimate functions without interference,” he said.

Oyegun, while commenting on the successful resolution of the crisis in the House of Representatives, said the last minute intervention by President Muhammadu Buhari helped to  broker the much needed peace and prevailed on the feuding lawmakers to sheath their sword.

He said the meeting summoned by President Buhari at the State House gave the needed impetus for the amicable settlement of the outstanding issues.

“The misunderstanding in the House has been amicably resolved thanks to the intervention of Mr. President who again made it quite clear with everybody that there is no alternative but to listen to what the party says.