The Media Aide
to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has confirmed the
searching, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
, of the flat
occupied by the former Governor in the building in Ikoyi Lagos where the Agency
last week discovered large sums of money in various currencies amounting to N13
– N15 billion.
Speaking to
the press seeking confirmation of the search on Tuesday, Obi’s Media Aide,
Valentine Obienyem, who revealed that the Ex-Governor is resident in Onitsha,
said that the apartment rented by the wife of the former Governor was usually
where Mr. Obi stayed anytime he was in Lagos.
Obienyem, who
cautioned against mischief makers seeking fault in Obi, made it clear that the
entire tenants in the building were also searched.
“Even though
Mr. and Mrs. Obi had travelled to the USA and the U.K. for speaking
engagements, when we relayed the message of the search to him, he quickly sent
the keys to the 4-bedroom apartment to the EFCC via courier. He even left
instructions that we should allow them to also search his Onitsha residence
should there be need for that. After the thorough searching, nothing was found
in the apartment,” Obienyem said.
He disclosed
that during the search one of the EFCC operatives was overheard doubting if the apartment had anything to do
with Obi, citing the fact that it was the simplest in terms of furnishing,
whereupon one of them told him:
“E be like say
you no know the man? You no know say the man still dey enter economy for plane;
dey sleep in cheap hotels and no dey chop money nor allow those close to him to
chop? Which kind Governor or him wife go come rent apartment built by a fellow
former Governor after governing a state for eight years? Dem say apart from
being a former Governor, the man dey wealthy.”
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