The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have cleared the air as to why they had to move the former Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano from Lagos to Abuja after arresting him on Thursday night.
A top official of the agency disclosed on Friday that it was in order to get Obiano to speak on the issues built against him that the agency moved him from Lagos to its headquarters in Abuja earlier on Friday morning.
A source in the agency said the commission does not have anything to do with Obiano’s wife but the former governor.
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It was not clear if the ex-governor would be admitted to administrative bail or charged to court early since he had already been placed on the EFCC watchlist since last November.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the anti-graft agency had earlier revealed why it arrested Obiano.
It was gathered that the former governor was nabbed by the anti-graft agency on Thursday night at the Lagos International Airport, on his way out of the country.
The development came just a few hours after he handed over power to the new Governor of the State, Chukwuma Charles Soludo.
Speaking with BBC Pidgin, the Public Relations Officer of the commission, Wilson Uwajaren confirmed the arrest.
According to the commission’s spokesman, Obiano had been on the watchlist of the EFCC prior to the transition on Thursday.
He said, ‘Obiano has been on our watchlist for sometime now. He had immunity as a governor and that is why we could not arrest him before now.
‘Today he lost the immunity and was traveling out of the country before we finally arrested him’.
The anti-graft agency had in a letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) dated November 15, 2021, sought the collaboration of the Service to ensure that Obiano is restrained from fleeing Nigeria after handing over, indicating readiness to arrest the Anambra governor at the end of his second tenure.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK