BREAKING NEWS: EX-ANAMBRA GOV, PETER OBI'S HOUSE AT IKOYI SEARCHED BY EFCC

The public outcry that greeted the discovery of a huge cache of money in various foreign currencies allegedly totalling #15b, in an apartment in the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos state is still in the news.

New reports say that security agents are allegedly searching all the apart at the 7-storey building for further evidences and among the tenants whose flat was searched is that of former Anambra Governor, Dr. Peter Obi.


Media Aide to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi,  confirmed the searching, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), of the flat occupied by the former Governor in the building in Ikoyi Lagos where the Agency last week discovered large sums of money in various currencies amounting to N13 – N15 billion.

Speaking to the press seeking confirmation of the search on Tuesday, Obi’s Media Aide, Valentine Obienyem, who revealed that the Ex-Governor is resident in Onitsha, said that the apartment rented by the wife of the former Governor was usually where Mr. Obi stayed anytime he was in Lagos.

Cautioning against mischief makers seeking fault in Obi, the ex-governor's media aide made it clear that the entire tenants in the building were also searched and not just the flat of his principal.

“Even though Mr. and Mrs. Obi had travelled to the USA and the U.K. for speaking engagements, when we relayed the message of the search to him, he quickly sent the keys to the 4-bedroom apartment to the EFCC via courier. He even left instructions that we should allow them to also search his Onitsha residence should there be need for that. After the thorough searching, nothing was found in the apartment,” Obienyem said.

Obi's media disclosed that during the search one of the EFCC operatives was overheard doubting if the apartment had anything to do with Obi, citing the fact that it was the simplest in terms of furnishing, whereupon one of them told him:

"E be like say you no know the man? You no know say the man still dey enter economy for plane; dey sleep in cheap hotels and no dey chop money nor allow those close to him to chop? Which kind Governor or him wife go come rent apartment built by a fellow former Governor after governing a state for eight years? Dem say apart from being a former Governor, the man dey wealthy".