The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) rearrested
former Imo State Governor Achike Udenwa on Wednesday in connection with
an alleged campaign scandal committed during the 2015 presidential
election.
Mr. Udenwa, as a State coordinator for the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) presidential campaign organization in Imo State, was said to have
collected the sum of N3.5m from the former senator representing Kaduna
South and Director of Finance for the PDP presidential campaign
organization, Nenadi Usman.
The suspect, in his statement to the commission, admitted receiving
the money via Diamond Bank with account numbers 0058805692 and
005950791 on January 14 and 28, 2015, respectively, in three separate
installments. He added that the money came from a company named Joint
Trust Dimension Limited.
This same company was charged alongside Mrs. Nenadi Usman and the
media director of the PDP presidential campaign organization, Femi
Fani-Kayode, before a Federal High Court in Lagos on a similar
allegation.
An investigation, however, revealed that Achike Udenwa and 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, Mr. Udenwa was immediately granted administrative
bail by the commission on the condition that he reports himself to the
commission at an appointed time. But while enjoying his administrative
bail, Mr. Udenwa chose to deliberately skip reporting, thereby
compelling the EFCC to revoke his administrative bail pending his
arraignment soon.
Achike Udenwa was a governor of Imo State under the flagship of the
PDP between 1999 and 2007 and became Minister of Commerce and Industry
between 2008 and 2010 under President Goodluck Jonathan’s
administration.
Source: SaharaReporters
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