Nigerian Govt Using EFCC To Prosecute Me Because I Refuse To Join APC — Bala Mohammed

Bauchi State Governor Bala Mohammed has alleged that the Federal Government is targeting him through the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) because he refused to join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mohammed said this on Wednesday in Bauchi during the signing of the 2026 appropriation bill into law.

The governor decried that one of his commissioners is currently being detained by the EFCC.

“As a governor, someone who is the head of the opposition, my commissioner has been kept and will not be released by the EFCC.

“Even when I have immunity as a governor, my name was stupendously mentioned in a motion in a court of law in Nigeria. Me, Bala Mohammed,” he said.

He said that the APC-led federal government thinks it can use the courts and institutions of government, like the EFCC, to persecute and prosecute Nigerians who are not within their own party.

According to him, no amount of harassment would force him to join the APC.