It has emerged that former Director of Media and Publicity of the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, who was re-arrested yesterday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), would be flown to Abuja for fresh grilling.
Checkpointcharley gathers that Fani-Kayode would face fresh charges as new evidence shows he collected enormous cash directly from the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki for 2015 presidential election.
An EFCC source said last night, “we are going to move him to Abuja to answer fresh questions arising from the new evidence that he personally collected various sums of money from the ONSA”.
He said the amount allegedly collected by Fani-Kayode for which he was rearrested, is different from the N4.9 billion, which he and others collected from the ONSA ahead of the presidential election, and for which the EFCC had already slammed a 17-count charge against them.
“There is a fresh case of various sums of money traced to the suspect, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the N4.9 billion case we instituted against him and others in Lagos.
“We arrested Fani-Kayode because we need him to explain to our operatives why he took the money and what he used it for. It is clear from the records before us that he received the money directly from the NSA.
“From the record before us, the suspect signed and collected the sum of N26 million for undisclosed purpose and we want him to explain to us why he took the cash in the first place.”
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