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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested a former First Lady of Anambra state, Ebele Obiano.

POLITICS NIGERIA gathered that Obiano was picked up on Thursday barely a few weeks after her husband and Ex-Governor, Willie Obiano was also arrested by the commission.

The former Anambra First Lady, who has been under investigation, is currently in the custody of the commission in Abuja.

It was learnt that Mrs Obiano was being questioned for alleged fraud.

She is currently seeking to contest in the 2023 elections to represent Anambra North District at the Senate under the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

Obiano made headlines a few weeks ago after she had a brawl with Bianca Ojukwu, wife of former Biafra warlord, Odumegwu Ojukwu and ranking member of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.

https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-efcc-arrests-ebele-obiano/

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Jagaban no be moslem again?

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The National Council of State has granted a state pardon to former governors Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame of Plateau and Taraba respectively, who are serving terms in jail for corruption.

The governors were among 159 prisoners pardoned by the Council at a meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday.

Among the beneficiaries are a former military general and minister under the Sani Abacha regime, Tajudeen Olanrewaju, an army lieutenant colonel, Akiyode, who was an aide of the former deputy of Mr Abacha, Oladipo Diya; and all the junior officers jailed over the 1990 abortive Gideon Orkar coup.

According to a presidential source, the two former governors were pardoned on health and age grounds.

Mr Nyame, who was governor of Taraba State from 1999 to 2007, was serving a 12-year jail term at the Kuje prison for misappropriation of funds while he was in office.

The Supreme Court upheld his conviction in February 2020.

Mr Dariye, who governed Plateau between 1999 and 2007, was jailed for stealing N2 billion in public funds during his time as Plateau State governor, in 1999 and 2007.

The former governor, elected as the senator representing Plateau Central in the Senate in 2015, was sentenced in June 2018 but still completed his tenure as a senator from jail in June 2019.

In 2021, he led a partly successful appeal at the Supreme Court with a five-man panel of the court headed by Mary Odili, quashing his conviction in respect of criminal misappropriation in a unanimous decision.

The offences he was discharged of only attracted two years’ imprisonment and, so had no impact on his overall number of years of imprisonment.

The apex court upheld the ex-governor’s conviction in respect of criminal breach of trust, which attracted a 10-year jail term.

Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja had on June 12, 201,8 convicted Mr Dariye and originally sentenced him to 14years’ imprisonment on charges of criminal breach of trust and two years jail terms for criminal misappropriation.

But following his appeal against the judgment, the Court of Appeal in Abuja on November 16, 2018, commuted the 14 years’ jail term to 10.

While the Court of Appeal affirmed his conviction, it held that section 416 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015, prohibited the imposition of a maximum sentence on a first offender, such as the convict.

The former governor had further appealed to the Supreme Court.

Ejembi Emo, a member of the apex court’s panel, noted that Mr Dariye’s appeal “succeeded in part” after quashing his conviction in respect of charges of criminal misappropriation.

The meeting of the Council was attended by a former president and military heads of state, except former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is in the United States on medical vacation.

https://i1.wp.com/media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2022/04/Fomer-governors-Joshua-Dariye-and-Jolly-Nyame-of-Plateau-and-Taraba-states.jpg

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/523946-former-governors-dariye-nyame-157-others-granted-state-pardon.html

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Buhari - When is the traitor decamping?

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Heavy Goods Keke......

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....only in Nigeria!

The interviewee was using a fake CV.....

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Chatflick:
Nwanimo1 falls under number 2. Helinues na BMC crew alongside . I still dey reason where Slawormiir fall under

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Farewell, cash out, embezzlement, fraudulent jamboree, hushpuppi, wayo, theft, goodbye, hijacking, diversion, 2023, Buharism!

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...it is well.

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....Na Obiano it remain enter the race for Presido!

21 + 31,

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Chai.....mudafucka's

Chinko medicine delicacy is the local name.......

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......better revive and stitch up the lizzard and sell to ndi China.

(ọ na-enweta ezigbo ego)

With that small rope string?

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....no be 'Juju' be dat?

Because na typical APC supporter....Jagaban syndrome!

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......a life of bondage na their religion.

Clueless cluelessness.............

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He will raise it from the dust after 3 'main market' days......

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Cockroach wey be your co lodger for Nigerian hotels.....

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He must mean Nigerians in america.....


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Sai Benzema....

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