{"id":92930,"date":"2022-03-18T12:42:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92930"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:04:20","slug":"ex-anambra-governor-flown-to-abuja-by-efcc-for-full-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ex-anambra-governor-flown-to-abuja-by-efcc-for-full-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Anambra governor flown to Abuja by EFCC for full investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has directed that the immediate past governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, his wife, Ebelechukwu Obiano to be flown from Lagos where they were arrested to its headquarters, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja told our Correspondent under condition of anonymity that a team of investigative panel was already\u00a0 assembled waiting to interrogate the former Anambra governor.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it has gone viral on social media on Friday that the anti-graft commission has released the immediate-past governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, and his wife, Ebelechukwu Obiano, from detention.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com reported that the former governor was arrested on Thursday night on his way out of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<div>Recall that Obiano had on Thursday completed his two-term tenure of eight years in office as Anambra governor.Details Later\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leadership of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has directed that the immediate past governor of Anambra state, Willie Obiano, his wife, Ebelechukwu Obiano to be flown from Lagos&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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