REAL REASONS WHY EFCC ARRESTED EX-GOV. OBIANO AT LAGOS AIRPORT

Mr Willie Obiano

By Our Reporter

That the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) arrested the immediate past Governor of Anambra State, Mr Willie Obiano at the Lagos airport at about 8 pm, while he was trying to travel out of Nigeria to Houston Texas in the USA is no longer news. What is perhaps news is that Mr. Obiano was arrested on account of the fact that he was on the watch list of the anti-graft agency.

The EFCC had in a letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service dated November 15, 2021,  requested the Service to place the governor on watchlist and inform it anytime he is travelling out of the country from any of the International airports and other points of entry and exit.

Although NATIONAL WAVES could not verify while the former governor was placed on watch list, sources squealed that it is connected to financial impropriety while in office.

.Mr Obiano, 66, left banking to join politics in 2013. He was elected governor of Anambra in November on the platform of theAll Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) that year.

He was subsequently sworn in on March 16, 2014