The suspect was a candidate in Kogi,
North Central Nigeria.
A former Kogi Central Senatorial
Candidate, Abdulazeez Bello, will soon be
arraigned by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, on charges of
impersonation and forgery.
Mr. Bello, 49, was arrested recently by
operatives of the State Security Services,
SSS, at the Sheraton Hotels & Towers,
Lagos, for impersonating the Director of
Operations of the EFCC, Olaolu Adegbite.
He was at the hotel premises to further
an advance fee fraud agenda targeted at
Mercy Orji, wife of the Abia State
Governor, Theodore Orji.
He reportedly posed as the EFCC’s
Director of Operations with a fake
identity card bearing the name of Mr.
Adegbite.
Reports from the SSS indicated that Mr.
Bello was arrested on January 27 while
negotiating with some aides of his
would-be victim. He was later handed
over to the EFCC for prosecution.
At the EFCC’s office, the politician-turned
conman said that he was working with
a certain Nelson Ndukwe and Chuks
Offor, both aides of Mrs. Orji, to perfect
his nefarious agenda of swindling her.
He confessed that he impersonated the
EFCC’s Director of Operations.
“I’m sorry that I impersonated the
Operations Director of the EFCC. I did it
to be able to arrest Mrs. Orji’s assistants
who are said to be working for her to
launder money. It was my first time of
doing this. EFCC should help me out of
this”, he said.
Mr. Bello has reportedly made useful
statements to the EFCC and will be
charged to court soon.
The politician was the candidate of the
Action Congress of Nigeria for the Kogi
Central Senatorial District in the 2011
elections.



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