EFCC Places Anambra Governor, Willie Obiano On Watchlist.

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Willie Obiano, the incumbent Governor of Anambra State, has been placed on a watch list by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) ahead of the state’s turnover of power.
This was revealed in a November 15, 2021 statement to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Comptroller General.
Governor Obiano has been placed on the watch list by the EFCC and if he wants to travel out, he will have to notify them.
It’s unclear why the governor was placed on the anti-corruption monitoring list.
The move revealed that the CIA was conducting a secret probe into the governor’s plans to leave after handing over power to Professor Charles Soludo on March 16, 2022.
Nigerian governors cannot be probed for criminal cases while still in office.
Obiano will hand over the reins to Professor Soludo once his two mandates as governor of Anambra finish in March 2022.
He would have served as governor for eight years by then, having been elected on the All Progressives Grand Alliance ticket in 2013. (APGA).
Before winning the election to succeed incumbent Governor Peter Obi, the governor had quit the banking system to enter politics.
Professor Soludo, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, will take over from him.
He stormed to victory, taking 19 of the state’s 21 local government districts while flying the state’s ruling party’s banner.
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP) was elected to the local government, as was Mr. Valentine Ozigbo of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Senator Andy Uba, a candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), was defeated in all of his local government seats.