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Nyako dares EFCC, returns from exile
Former Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako who was declared wanted by the EFCC is back to Nigeria.
He returned on Saturday from London on a Lufthansa Airline flight, at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja, around 4:42pm, where he was received by former governor of Gombe State, Sen. Danjuma Goje; former governor of Zamfara State, Sen. Sani Yerima; his son, Abdulazeez, and other political allies.
The former governor was declared wanted by the EFCC over allegation of financial crimes, but it was not yet clear if the anti-corruption agency would now arrest Nyako, who is currently in Abuja.
Nyako fled the country following his impeachment by the Adamawa State House of Assembly, which he is still contesting in court.
Nyako, one of the five governors that defected from the PDP to the APC at the height of the PDP crisis, ran into troubled waters, when the national headquarters his former political party the PDP, in Abuja, dissolved the executives of the party in his state.
The former naval chief had accused the then President of having hands in the Boko Haram menace ravaging the North-East.
His political associates were said to be preparing a heroic reception for him in Yola, Adamawa State capital.
It was however gathered that Nyako would remain in Abuja till Monday and that he was planning to see Buhari before leaving the nation’s capital.
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