EFCC re-arrests Udenwa, asks him to account for N350m over #DiezaniGate

It is not yet uhuru for former Imo Governor, Chief Achike Udenwa, as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has asked him to account for the N350 million he signed and collected from Fidelity Bank ahead of last year’s presidential election.

The anti-graft agency, which re-arrested him, alleged that he collected the cash in three installments from Nenadi Usman, who was the Director of Finance for the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation.

The suspect, who served as the Imo State Coordinator for the Goodluck Campaign team, however, admitted in his statement to the commission that he recieved the said cash from Diamond Bank account Nos.00 8805692 and 005950791 respectively on the 14th and 28th of January 2015 in three separate installments.

Udenwa added that the said money came from a company named Joint Trust Dimension Limited, which had already been charged alongside Mrs Nenadi Usman and the Media Director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani Kayode before the Federal High Court Lagos on a‎ similar allegation.

Findings by the EFCC revealed that Udenwa and Viola Onwuliri, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and State Minister for Education, who was his deputy at the Presidential Campaign Organisation, were the two signatories to the Diamond Bank account that received the money.

After much interrogation, the former governor was granted administrative bail by the commission on the condition that he should be reporting to the commission at an appointed time.

[Daily Post]