Peter Obi has been asked to report at the agency's Abuja headquarters on October 27 to face investigators.

The former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, whose secret and illegal offshore activities PREMIUM TIMES reported in the ongoing Pandora Papers series, has been summoned for questioning by the EFCC, Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency.

It is the first known action by any Nigerian law enforcement agency since PREMIUM TIMES started reporting influential Nigerians involved in offshore shenanigans exposed through the global Pandora Papers investigation. The presidency has directed that Nigerians exposed in the reports be investigated, those with knowledge of the directive have told this paper.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the EFCC communicated the invitation to Mr Obi during the week and he has been asked to report at the agency’s Abuja headquarters on October 27 to face investigators.

Sources separately said the invitation is in connection with revelations in our Pandora Papers report. The report exposed how Mr Obi incorporated offshore holdings, which he did not declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau when he served as a governor and how he continued to manage his Next International UK Limited 14 months after becoming a governor. In addition, he also continued to operate a foreign account as a governor.

All these actions, which had been secret until our report, were in contravention of Nigeria’s laws on code of conduct for public officers, PREMIUM TIMES reported. Mr Obi has, however, continued to claim no wrongdoing.

However, a source at the anti-graft agency said the Pandora Papers revelations only served as a lead for investigators and that “a number of issues” are now being investigated regarding Mr Obi and his offshore dealings.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that President Muhammadu Buhari has requested relevant law agencies, including the EFCC, Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, and the Code of Conduct Bureau to investigate all Nigerians whose secret, many times suspicious, dealings were exposed in Pandora Papers series.

It is not clear if the EFCC’s action on Mr Obi is connected to Mr Buhari’s directive.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/490191-pandora-papers-efcc-summons-peter-obi.html

The well packaged fraud from Alaigbo

Shameless EFCC.

We saw it coming, we are ready... we are not going to complain about the rest on same pandora or the quantum corruption bedeviling Nigeria, because you would definitely come out with your integrity intact as always..

ThatFairGuy:
The well packaged fraud from Alaigbo

Dis ain't about ethnicity bro, else every tribe shud be guilty of fraud nd corruption. Be transpirent atleast, if u haue to be Thatfairguy.

Him Tu Lie

They just want to drag this mans name through the mud in the media. They don't intend to prosecute him because he is clean

Why just him?. It's now glaring that d whole Pandora expository was all about Peter Obi and his 2023 ambition. Why not having pity for him and his one Nigeria colleagues, I wish he comes out clean as usual. Only Mazi Nnamdi Kanu we know

We are ready....

EmptyGarden:
Shameless EFCC.

because they summon ur criminal brother abi

Apc watch dog and witch hunting at it again , If Amechi is free then everybody in Nigeria is not corrupt

Oj

Jobless EFCC

When are they going to summon and speak with Bagudu who was handed a good chunk of the last Abacha-loot repatriated as if the funds had been in safekeeping for him?

The fight or war on corruption shouldn't be a selective one.

What's good for Bala should also be good for Bulus

Every single name on the list should be investigated. The elite are bent on sinking this country but God pass them. Imagine if this revelation was solely by premium times, by now dss would have shut down their office. Ndi ara.

It's time for Tinubu's name to trend, because EFCC invited Obi, and nit Tinubu or Leno Adesanya. Meanwhile, they don't care whether Obi committed the crime as alleged, or not, since he's Igbo, his name shouldn't come up at all, it's witchhunting.

Efcc should get serious na. Do your own investigation and get solid case before going to the court of social media

From all of us at vulturegrill, we solidly stand with anything that will move our darling dearing nation forward


Notwithstanding, this has gone a long way to prove that all the APShit members and our darling deering dad is corruption free

I'm not surprised, they should invite the other names mentioned too.

Ff

So they hv the power to investigate this kind of case without real evidence, buh can't investigate Abba Kyari's case that has real evidence.

Mad people

Very lopsided government

H

Lol
Efcc has started pre election work
Same efcc that is yet to invite gan dollar and co

Lol.. EFCC is about to join Peter Obi 2023 campaign team free of charge .

Anybody that meet that man will never remain the same after. The man is something else intellectually