The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is going after Ali Modu Sheriff, the ex-Governor of Borno State, as he is expected to appear before it today, April 23, report reveals.
According to a Premium Times report, Sheriff has been summoned by the anti-graft agency and is expected to report at the Abuja head office of the Commission to answer questions concerning accusations of “misappropriation, embezzlement of funds and abuse of office while he was governor”.
Multiple sources at the EFCC told reporters that should Sheriff fail to show up as ordered, he would be announced wanted and then jailed.
It was learnt that detectives were already watching his movements to stop him from escaping.
While the specific allegations against the ex-governor are uncertain at this time, the investigation is connected with claims that part of the N300 billion his government received from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011 may not have been carefully spent.
The inquiry began in 2012 and had been continuing ever since, the sources said.
Sheriff ruled Borno state on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party.
Before then, he was senator between 1999 and 2003 on the ticket of the same party.
It remains unknown why the ex-governor is being summoned by the crimes commission at the tail end of a government formed by his own party, the Peoples Democratic Party, which he joined only last year.
The spokesman for the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, has yet to confirm the information. The former governor too could not be reached.
Sheriff, who has since fallen out with his successor, Kashim Shetttima, left the All Progressives Congress, which he helped to create in 2013.
Before his defection from the APC, the ex-governor clashed repeatedly with some leaders of the opposition party, including the former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, who he blamed for harbouring dictatorial tendencies.
After meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan last year, Sheriff told reporters that his defection to the PDP was in Nigeria’s interests.
Seemingly because of his romance with the ruling party, the PDP federal government snubbed calls for his arrest and prosecution over his supposed link with Boko Haram.
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