The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has revealed why it arrested the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano just a few hours after he handed over power.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the anti-graft agency had nabbed the former Governor on Thursday night at the Lagos International Airport, on his way out of the country to the US.
The development got many Nigerians talking because it 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.
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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’.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that a few weeks ago, the report that Willie Obiano of Anambra, was placed on corruption watch-list by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had unsettled the former banker.
The commission had before now mounted surveillance on Obiano while he was still governor for seeming imminent arrest in the build up to his handover of power to his successor in March 2022 (Yesterday).
The EFCC, 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