The EFCC has reopened money laundering cases involving 13 former governors and some former ministers, with the total amounts implicated exceeding N853.8bn.
The individuals under scrutiny include two former Ekiti State governors, Kayode Fayemi and Ayo Fayose; former Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle; two former Enugu State governors, Chimaroke Nnamani and Sullivan Chime; former Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Adamu; former Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Others are former Rivers State governor, Peter Odili; former Abia State governor, Theodore Orji; former Gombe State governor, Danjuma Goje; former Sokoto State governor, Aliyu Wamako; former Bayelsa State governor, Timipre Sylva; and former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido.
Matawalle, the current Minister of Defence in President Bola Tinubu’s administration, faces a probe for alleged N70bn money laundering. Fayemi, who previously served as Minister of Solid Minerals Development under former President Muhammadu Buhari, is under investigation for an alleged N4bn fraud. Fayose, a two-term governor of Ekiti State, is being investigated for an alleged N6.9bn fraud.
Nnamani is being probed for an alleged N5.3bn fraud; Chime is under investigation for an alleged N450m campaign fraud as part of the N23bn allegedly shared by former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Adamu is being investigated for alleged N15bn fraud.
Kwakwanso is facing a probe for alleged non-remittance of N10bn pension fund; Orji is being investigated over alleged N551bn money laundering; while Odili is similarly being probed for alleged N100bn fraud. The handling of Odili’s case remains unclear as he obtained a perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC and other security agencies from a Federal High Court in March 2008, which has not been vacated to date.
Goje is under investigation for an alleged N5bn fraud; Wammako is being probed for allegedly diverting N15bn; Sylva, a former Minister of State for Petroleum under Buhari, is under investigation for alleged N19.2bn money laundering; while Lamido is being investigated over an alleged N1.35bn fraud.
Diezani is being probed over several alleged money laundering cases involving several billions of naira and millions of dollars.
