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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