A former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, is expected to appear before anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt Tuesday that he has been summoned by the Commission and is expected to report at the agency’s Abuja head office to respond to questions bordering on allegations of “misappropriation, embezzlement of funds and abuse of office while he was governor”.
Multiple sources at the anti-graft agency told this newspaper that should Mr. Sheriff failed to show up as directed, he would be declared wanted and then arrested.

Our sources said detectives were already on his trail and watching his movement to prevent him from fleeing.
Although the specific allegations against the former governor is unclear at this time, this newspaper gathered that the investigation is related with allegations that parts of the N300billion his administration received from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011 may not have been judiciously spent.
The investigation began in 2012 and had been ongoing ever since, our sources said.
Mr. Sheriff ruled Borno State on the platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP].
Before then, he was senator between 1999 and 2003 on the ticket of the same party.
It remains unclear why Mr. Sheriff is being invited by the anti-graft agency at the tail end of an administration formed by his own party, PDP, which he joined only last year.

The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, could not be reached to comment for this story. He did not answer or return calls. He also did not respond to a text message seeking comment.
Mr. Sheriff too could not be reached. His known mobile telephone was switched off for most of Tuesday and Wednesday.
Multiple calls to his spokesperson, Inuwa Bwala, failed to connect.
The former governor, who has since fallen out with his successor, Kashim Shetttima, dumped the All Progressives Congress, which he helped formed in 2013.
Before leaving the APC, Mr. Sheriff clashed repeatedly with some leaders of the opposition party, including a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, who he accused of harbouring dictatorial tendencies. On one occasion, Mr. Sheriff had a shouting match with Mr. Tinubu at a meeting.

Mr. Sheriff told journalists after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan last year that his defection to the PDP was in Nigeria’s interest.
Apparently because of his romance with the ruling party, the PDP Federal Government rebuffed calls for his arrest and prosecution over his alleged link with Boko Haram.

Mr. Sheriff, alongside a former Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, and an unnamed Central Bank of Nigeria official, was named by an Australian hostage negotiator, Stephen Davies, as sponsors of the dreaded terrorist group.
Messrs Sheriff and Ihejirika strongly denied the allegations, and Mr. Davies has so far failed to provide evidence of their culpability.

In September 2014, despite the allegation against Mr. Sheriff, which the State Security Service claimed it was investigating at the time, the former Borno governor was in President Jonathan’s company during an official visit to Chadian President, Idris Deby, to discuss how to combat insurgency in Nigeria.

The opposition APC and some civil society organisations slammed the president for hobnobbing with the ex-governor.
But in defence, the president, through his media adviser, Reuben Abati, accused the opposition and other critics of creating false impression that Mr. Sheriff was part of the president’s official delegation to Chad.

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Lalasticlala , Ishilove

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New IG wants to make his mark...

SAS no longer has the Jona/PDP umbrella to shield him from the harsh weather that lays in wait for him.

Better late than never.

GEJ on rampage. He be like " No b me Una chop? I go show Una pepper before I leave"

EFCC is still alive?

The incoming govt must thread with caution and apply strategy in fighting corruption. The men in question have so much money to rubish any govt. They must come into govt and restructure the judiciary. Its the escape root of all corrupt fellows...when ppl said Deziani was running after may 29..i laugh. This is democracy. Nobody will arrest anybody and just cast you into prison...the case will go through court of law with compelling admissible evidence...the fight against corruption must start with Judiciary cleansing. If not, watch people looth enough to remain afloat in court for donkey years.

This man scammed Jonathan with the purported deal with Boko Haram last September. Its payback time.

Good for him. Ask any Borno resident he will tell you that SAS has connections with boko haram. Some people are just being extremely controlled by stupidity to the extent of accusing Shettima. Many victims of boko haram said this but nobody paid attention to that.

Now that Gej is angry that they wasted his money, he is showing them that he had the capacity to govern Nigeria well but chose to allow them to misbehave anyhow

hairyanus:
The incoming govt must thread with caution and apply strategy in fighting corruption. The men in question have so much money to rubish any govt. They must come into govt and restructure the judiciary. Its the escape root of all corrupt fellows...when ppl said Deziani was running after may 29..i laugh. This is democracy. Nobody will arrest anybody and just cast you into prison...the case will go through court of law with compelling admissible evidence...the fight against corruption must start with Judiciary cleansing. If not, watch people looth enough to remain afloat in court for donkey years.

You are right to some extent.But don't forget that for the mere fact that an anti crime agency by whatever name finds sufficient evidence to take you to court in d first place is enough indictment and stain in a sane environment.
The main reason why some of them took the court arraignment to be a plaything is that apart from being able to sometimes bribe their way out,they also found a govt ready with open arms to even compensate them.
I do bliv that this would change under d GMB govt because even if you are able to get away,which I even doubt with a judiciary that would be more careful in encouraging criminality, the govt would ensure you become a pariah not only in government circles but in the larger society.
Bear it also in mind that with the pressure d govt would be to deliver on its anti corruption promise,each case would be diligently,determinedly and fully investigated and prosecuted,which wasn't the case under GEJ

EFCC is now doing their job... for a while now we have not heard any high profile case from EFCC

Where have they been to all this while?

EFCC, SSS, NPF, all agents of pdp.

Okay

Shielding this man and other criminnals at the expense of the masses is the undoing of Jonathan that made him lose his second term bid,

Gej is on rampage I like that. So many tins may happen before may 29

300 billion naira!

Okay o

EFCC, the new party in town.
They want to outshine KOWA & YDP by proving a late hour point.
#Godwin

4 years without a single arrest... now Efcc had suddenly been awakened from their long slumber just cuz the general said they would be investigated also chaiii its so good to have someone whose name alone sends shivers thru the spine of the corrupt ones as the president of a nation.... Imagine the amount that would be recovered if all those hiding under the torn umbrella are been properly investigated