Obiano’s Travel To US Stalled As EFCC Nabs Him At Airport

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By; PAMELA EBOH, Awka 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday arrested former Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano at the International wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, while trying to board a flight to Houston, Texas in the USA.
He had earlier in the day, handed over to his successor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, where his wife had caused a stir with an attack on wife of late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu.
Obiano, a retired auditor with Texaco was living in US before he was called  back   to take up the mantle of leadership of the state by former governor Peter Obi.
Before his arrest, the former governor had expressed his intention to return to his base in Houston, Texas to rest after an 8-year sojourn in politics.
EFCC spokesperson is said to have confirmed the arrest, and the former governor has been taken to the EFCC’s office in Lagos.
Obiano has been on EFCC’s watchlist for some months now before his handing over to the government of Prof Charles Soludo.

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