Defection: Olukoyede denies secret meeting with any politician

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, says it is “outraged by the unfounded claims of Mr. Paul Ibe, spokesperson for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President, alleging that Ola Olukoyede,  Chairman, held a secret meeting with an unnamed politician.”

 Ibe was a guest on Seun Okinbaloye’s Politics Today on Channels Television on Thursday, May 22, 2025,  where he spoke on sundry theories, conjectures and assumptions relating to opposition politics and defections.

He alleged that Olukoyede and Solicitor General of the Federation’s allegedly had a meeting with an unnamed governor 48 hours before the governor’s defection to the ruling All People’s Congress.

But Dele Oyewale, spokesman for the EFCC, said in a statement on Friday that Ibe’s claims “are patently fabricated and in bad taste.” 

The statement added, “Olukoyede has stressed it at several fora that he is apolitical and the EFCC totally wired against partisan tendencies.  

“The public is enjoined to disregard the alleged meeting with the unnamed governor as it only exists in the imagination of Ibe.”