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BREAKING: EFCC Arrest Ex- Governor Of Akwa Ibom State by Hamxas: 9:31am On May 10, 2016 |
The EFCC arrested the former governor just
as the Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood
Yakubu, assured Nigerians that the
Commission will cooperate with the anti-
graft agency in regarding its personnel
named in the scandal.
According to a statement by the
commission’s Director, Voters’ Education and
Publicity, Oluwole Ozaze-Uzzi on Monday,
Mr. Yakubu gave the assurance during a
meeting with editors in Lagos.
“Whatever level of cooperation any of the
agencies requires of the Commission, we will
give that level of cooperation because it is
also in a bid to sanitize the system,” Mr.
Yakubu was quoted as saying.
“I hope also it (investigation) will extend to the
givers not just the takers so that there will be
collective sanity. Whoever violates the law of
this land and there are questions to answer,
the person should answer, the person should
bear his own cross.
“All the staff that are fingered are individuals.
It is not a collective institutional thing. They
should go and answer for what they have
alleged to have done.”
Some staff of the electoral body were
alleged to have received a cumulative N23
billion in bribe from Mrs. Alison-Madueke,
through Fidelity Bank.
Prominent among the accused INEC staff
were Gesila Khan, the Resident Electoral
Commissioner who had earlier been arrested
by the State Security Service over
allegations of inducement to rig elections in
Rivers State; and Uluochi Obi Brown (INEC’s
Administrative Secretary in Delta State),
former Deputy Director of INEC in Cross
River state, Edem Okon Effanga, and the
Head of Voter Education in INEC in Akwa
Ibom, Immaculata Asuquo.
Also under investigation is retired INEC
official, Sani Isa, who allegedly collected
bribe on behalf of the deceased Resident
Electoral Commissioner in Kano State,
Mukaila Abdullahi.
Also two unnamed former INEC chiefs were
said to have participated in aiding the flow
of the bribe money.
The alleged bribery scandal involved bank
chiefs, including Sterling Bank Chief
Executive, Yemi Adeola, the removed
Managing Director of Fidelity Bank, Nnamdi
Okonkwo and Access Bank Managing
Director, Hubert Wigwe, who allegedly
assisted Mrs. Alison-Maduekwe in laundering
part of the fund which was allegedly handed
to INEC staff in a plot to influence outcomes
of the 2015 presidential poll. |
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