Hope Uzodinma, governorship
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo state, has been
arrested.
He was arrested him at Nnamdi
Azikiwe airport in Abuja on Sunday.
Okoi Obono-Obla, chairman of the
Operatives of the special presidential investigation panel for recovery of
public property panel, confirmed this to The Cable on Monday.
He said Uzodinma was arrested
over a breach of contract. Obono-Obla said a company of the senator
representing Imo west senatorial district was awarded a $12m contract by the
Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for the dredging of Calabar channel but did not
execute the contract.
“We have been looking for him for
the past 13 months over a case of failure to execute a contract of $12m dollars
awarded for the dredging of the Calabar channels awarded by the Nigeria Ports
Authority,” he said.
“We have written countless
letters to the clerk of the national assembly in accordance with their
procedure. He has shunned all our invitations and he has been very evasive.
“We pasted our assets declaration
form because the first procedure when we are investigating you is to give you
our assets declaration form and within 30 days, you are required to fill and
return them. If you fail to return them, then we can charge you to court. We
have charged him to before the federal high court for failure to declare his
assets. He has notice of our invitation. We pasted the asset declaration form
in his residence in accordance with the law.”
Asked if the arrest has anything
to do with the crisis rocking the state chapter of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Obono-Obla said the panel only did its job.
“It has nothing to do with
politics. Why is it that each time we invite somebody, people will begin to
read political meaning to it?” he asked.
“We have no business with what is
happening in Imo state. We have been given a job to do and we have to do it. If
he has issues, he should have taken steps to clear all those issues before
vying for the election. We have no business with that. We have been asked to do
something and we are doing it.”
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had published the name of Uzodinma as the candidate
of the APC in Imo against the wish of Rochas Okorocha, governor of the state.
Okorocha’s preferred candidate is
Uche Nwosu, his son in-law.
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