The ex-governor was grilled at the headquarters of the EFCC in Abuja on Wednesday.
He added that EFCC had invited him before the Sallah break, but he informed them that he would appear after Sallah and they obliged.“When I met with EFCC chairman, he told me there were petitions against me and they wanted to hear from me and my meeting with EFCC chairman wasn’t more than 10 minutes,” Mr Al-Makura was quoted as telling journalists.
This newspaper learnt that about 55 accounts controlled by the couple and their companies were involved in the suspicious transactions, amounting to billions of naira, when Mr Al-Makura was the governor of Nasarawa State between 2011 and 2019. Many deposits into this particular domiciliary account and others were made by businesses alleged to have carried out contracts for the state government.“The transactions raised suspicion of money laundering or routing of proceeds of corruption,” one source said.
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