Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Tuesday arraign the immediate past Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shehu-Shagari, on an alleged fraud, The PUNCH can report.
Shagari, who is a nephew of former President Shehu Shagari, allegedly took part in the sharing of N23bn ($115m) disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the run-up to the 2015 presidential election.
The money, the EFCC said, was meant to manipulate the outcome of the poll in favour of the Peoples Democratic Party as the money found its way into the bank accounts of scores of electoral officers who have since been suspended by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The commission alleged in the charge sheet that Shagari, who served as Minister of Water Resources under former President Olusegun Obasanjo, allegedly received…
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