The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has invited a factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, for questioning on the 2015 presidential campaign funds of the party.
Sheriff was believed to have benefitted from the funds released by the presidency for the re-election bid of the then President Goodluck Jonathan.
The EFCC, which has been inviting and retrieving huge sums voted for the 2015 presidential election from various political actors, asked Sheriff to report to its Borno State office in Maiduguri, according to reports on Wednesday.
The invitation, it was gathered, was extended to Sheriff on Tuesday.
However, there has been no official confirmation of the development by the EFCC.
But a top notch of the commission said Sheriff is being expected at the Maiduguri office of the commission.
The source explained that most of the funds traced to political gladiators in the presidential election had been allegedly picked up at the Fidelity Bank Plc branches in state capitals across the country.
The money has been allegedly traced to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who deposited $115 million in Fidelity Bank Plc, through its now sacked Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Nnamdi Okonkwo.
The money was then changed into Naira for distribution to top chieftains of the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The sum in Naira was put then at N23.3 billion. – Tribune.
