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EFCC arrest ex-gov Udenwa over N350m Jonathan campaign fund
Former Imo State governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Udenwa was arrested on claims that he received N350m from Senator Nenadi Usman, the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential elections.
The money according to the anti-graft commission was part of the N4 billion that emanated from the imprest account of the Office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Udenwa was the Imo State coordinator of the campaign organisation. EFCC had claimed he admitted receiving the money in his statement of oath via Diamond Bank account 0058805692 and 005950791 respectively on January 14 and January 28, 2015 in three separate instalments.
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He is said to have told EFCC that he and a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Viola Onwuliri, his deputy at the presidential campaign organisation, were the two signatories to the Diamond Bank account that received the money. Onwuliri has since left the country.
The money came from a company named Joint Trust Dimension Limited, said to be owned by Usman. The company was charged alongside Usman and the Media Director of the campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, before a Federal High Court in Lagos on a similar allegation.
Udenwa had claimed he did not know the source of the money and that he spent the money for the exact purpose for which it was given to him and had told the EFCC that he could not return any money as it had all been spent.
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