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Nigerian Graft Agency Arrests Presidential Hopeful Hours to Screening
A Nigerian presidential aspirant under the platform of the ruling party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), Rochas Okorocha has been arrested by the country’s graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC laid siege of Okorocha’s flamboyant residence in the highbrow Abuja city and finally arrested former Governor Rochas Okorocha.
A local newspaper reports that the embattled ex- governor of a South-East state, Imo, was whisked away by EFCC operatives, who shot sporadically to disperse a crowd of supporters who had come to show solidarity with the Imo Senator.
A source in the EFCC disclosed to Vanguard that, Rochas Okorocha, may remain with the Commission till May 30th when the mandatory screening for aspirants would have been done with.