EFCC arrests former Abia State Governor Theodore Orji

Former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

He was reportedly intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at about 10 am on Thursday and brought to the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi, Abuja for the continuation of his interrogation.

This was confirmed by EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren.

He is being quizzed alongside his son, Chinedu, the current Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, who turned himself in this afternoon upon learning of his father’s arrest.

Senator Orji and his sons, Chinedu and Ogbonna, are under investigation by the EFCC for offences bordering on misappropriation of public funds and money laundering.

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