After “stealing” N350 million, ex-governor rearrested for “snubbing” EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arrested former governor of Imo State Achike Udenwa in connection with alleged 2015 election campaign scandal.
Udenwa, as a state co-ordinator for Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign, was said to have collected N350 million from former Kaduna senator and Director of Finance for the PDP presidential campaign, Mrs Nenadi Usman.
The suspect, in his statement to the Commission admitted receiving the money via Diamond Bank account No.0058805692 and 005950791 respectively on the 14th and 28th of January 2015 in three separate instalments.
He added that the money came from a company named Joint Trust Dimension Limited. This same company was charged alongside Usman and the Media Director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani Kayode, before Federal High Court Lagos on a similar allegation.
EFCC investigation, however, revealed that Achike Udenwa and one Viola Onwuliri, a former minister of foreign affairs and state minister for education, who was his deputy at the presidential campaign organization, were the two signatories to the Diamond Bank account that received the money.
Upon his arrest, Udenwa was immediately granted administrative bail by the commission with condition that he should be reporting to the commission at an appointed time.
But while enjoying his administrative bail, Udenwa chose to deliberately skip reporting, thereby compelling the commission re-arrested him on Wednesday.
Achike Udenwa was a governor of Imo State under the flagship of People’s Democratic Party between 1999 and 2007 and became a minister of Commerce and Industry between 2008 and 2010 under Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Culled from a press release by the EFCC..
