The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has reportedly moved the immediate-past governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano from Lagos.
Willie Obiano was said to have been moved by the anti-graft agency in the early hours of Friday morning to Abuja.
Willie Obiano was arrested on Thursday night in compsany with his wife, Ebele, at the Lagos Airport on his way out of Nigeria to Houston, Texas in the United States of America.
This was hours after he handed over, on Thursday, to the new Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo after he completed his two-term tenure of eight years in office.
The former governor had been on the Commission’s watchlist since November 2021.
The sixty-six years old Willie Obiano spent his first night as former Governor of Anambra State in the custody of the anti-graft agency.
Details of his grilling encounter with the EFCC operatives had yet to be known as of the time of filing this report.
News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has moved the former Anambra Governor, Mr Willie Obiano to Abuja after he was arrested in Lagos on Thursday night.
The spokesperson for the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed this when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
“The ex-governor was arrested in Lagos, but was moved to Abuja this morning (Friday),” Uwujaren said.
The commission busted Obiano at about 8.30p.m., on Thursday, at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, on his way to Houston, Texas, U.S after handing over to his successor, Gov. Charles Soludo.
The commission’s spokesperson said that Obiano had been on the EFCC’s watch list for some months, adding that his immunity as a governor prevented his arrest until he handed over to his successor.
Uwujaren said the commission had requested the Nigeria Immigration Service to provide information on the former governor’s movement out of the country from airports, or other points of exit from the country.
NAN reports, however, that the EFCC has yet to release details of Obiano’s offence.
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