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A professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, has said that he would never seek any political office in Nigeria again.
Utomi made this statement on Friday in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television.
The professor also said that he won’t accept any appointment or contract by any Nigerian government.
“Let me state clearly, I will not run for public office, I will not accept an appointment, contract by any government in Nigeria. My only concern is the well-being of the next generation.
“I have lived my life decently without government money or stealing anybody’s thing. I want to take that away from people who talk nonsense like, ‘Oh, he is looking for contract,” he stated.
In other news, Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted three consecutive days to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to conclude the ten-year-old corruption charges it instituted against a former National Security Adviser Mohammed Sambo Dasuki.
The judge allocated 7, 8 and 9 July for the anti-graft agency to conclude the corruption case it started in 2015.
Justice Lifu’s decision came when the trial was started afresh in his court, and counsel for EFCC, Oladipupo Okpeseyi, and A. A. Usman for Dasuki argued over the admissibility or otherwise of a subpoena issued on 24 May 2018 to the Department of State Service, DSS, to present in court certain items found on Dasuki’s properties.
Dasuki’s counsel initiated legal arguments when he challenged the status of the subpoena because it was issued to the DSS as an entity not recognised by the law of the country.
The EFCC lawyer, however, countered the objection, insisting that DSS was a creation of statute and that there had been no confusion in the identity of the organisation.
