After Wife’s Dirty Slap, Obiano Slammed Into EFCC Detention

EEight years of stewardship for Chief Willie Obiano as governor came to a controversial end on Thursday after he was arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at the Lagos airport while preparing to leave the country for Houston, United States.

The arrest by the EFCC operatives came after his wife was slapped at the handover ceremony by Bianca Ojukwu, the widow of the Biafran leader, Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu.

Obiano who had been on the watchlist of the EFCC was arrested while making preparations to board his flight for the United States inside the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

He was arrested around 8.30pm. EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren confirmed the arrest.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported last November that the EFCC placed Obiano on a watchlist, ahead of the handover of government in the state.

The EFCC had written a letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) dated November 15, 2021 to that effect.

The EFCC requested the immigration to place Governor Obiano on a watchlist and inform it anytime he is travelling out of the country from any of the international airports, as well as other points of entry and exit.

The former commissioner for information, Don Adinuba while expressing the government’s fury at the decision to place Obiano on a watch list had also disclosed that Obiano would relocate to the United States immediately after handing over.

“The EFCC went too far to announce in November that it is observing him. We are not aware of any state governor who had up to four months to be in office and the EFCC went on to sponsor media reports that he was being investigated.”

It was expected that Obiano would use the time between that development and his handing over today to sort out his issues but he apparently did not and his day ending in the detention of the EFCC after his wife received a slap was something not envisaged.

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