The anti-graft agency came into existence only a few years after Nigeria became a democracy in 1999. Its first Chief, Nuhu Ribadu, claimed that Nigeria lost more than $380 billion to graft between 1960 and 1999 (Eme 2010). The nation’s political class reigned with impunity until the agency’s creation. Under him, the agency arrested powerful state governors and earned media praise. However, the agency under Ribadu trampled on suspects’ rights while avoiding targeting allies of then President Olusegun Obasanjo. The Commission has only garnered four convictions against Nigeria’s political elites since its creation in 2004, with those found guilty facing little on prison time. Waziri took over the Commission in 2008 and has been criticised by the United States of America diplomats for being unprepared and for apparently being controlled by politicians. Others have leveled corruption allegations against her and operatives of the commission, though none has been proven There is no telling the fact the wait is still or on, close to a decade after. Instead of corruption abating it is increasing. Sadly, though with a clearly equipped arsenal to achieve spelt out goals, the EFCC allowed the enemy virus, which has previously destroyed the fabrics of the polity to creep into it operations. Thus, instead of a steely approach towards fighting crimes, the agency became a clay-footed organ that hardly get anything done. Pioneer chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, has shown the direction of the body would go when, like an attack dog for Obasanjo, he began arresting enemies of the former President. Particularly, those not agreeable to his third term bid, anticlimaxing in the odious impeachment of state governors without the mandatory two-third majority required by the 1999 Constitution. Last November, his replacement, Farida Waziri, like Ribadu, was unceremoniously removed from office, for reasons observes believes could also not be different from the sins of her predecessor-, more excuses than effectiveness. The paper examines the many problems of the Commission as well as he challenges of anti-graft war in post April 2011 Nigeria as it concerns governor who lost in the elections.

The anti-graft agency came into existence only a few years after Nigeria became a democracy in 1999. Its first Chief, Nuhu Ribadu, claimed that Nigeria lost more than $380 billion to graft between 1960 and 1999 (Eme 2010). The nation’s political class reigned with impunity until the agency’s crea...