EFCC Freezes Udenwa, Onwuliri's Accounts Over N4bn Campaign Fund

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen two bank accounts jointly owned by a former Governor of Imo State, Achike Udenwa; and a former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Prof. Viola Onwuliri.

 

According to Punch, the EFCC took the decision as part of investigation into the N4bn disbursed by the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election in which Udenwa and Onwuliri got N350m in two tranches.

 

The money was disbursed by the Director of Finance of the campaign organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman and came from the Central Bank of Nigeria.

 

A source at the anti-graft agency stated that “Udenwa and Onwuliri got N350m in two tranches. The first tranche of N150m was paid into their joint account with Zenith Bank on January 13, 2015.

 

When contacted on the telephone, however, Udenwa said he was not aware if the account had been frozen or not since he was no longer using it.

“Has it been frozen? I don’t know. When they quizzed me a few weeks ago, I told them that the account was opened solely for the purpose of receiving campaign funds and we are no longer using the account,” he said.