President Bola Tinubu is currently in a closed-door meeting with the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting comes barely 24 hours after Tinubu ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to vacate immediately the Ikoyi office of the anti-graft commission.
Bawa, who arrived at the Villa a few minutes past 2 pm was ushered into the President’s office complex.
The meeting is said to be connected to Tinubu’s order following a seething rivalry between the DSS and the EFCC over the ownership of the building.
A statement issued by Tunde Rahman explained that the President gave the directive when reports that DSS officials stormed the EFCC office located on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi on Tuesday, preventing officials of the anti-graft agency from accessing their workplace, was brought to his attention.
DSS operatives had stormed the office around 7:00 am on Tuesday and refused to leave despite dialogue between operatives of both agencies
The EFCC had expressed shock at the manner in which operatives of its sister agency denied its operatives entry into its Lagos office.
However, the DSS denied the claim, describing it as “not true.”
The President, while reacting to the development, said “if there were issues between the two important agencies of government, they would be resolved amicably.”