From James Ojo, Abuja
Former Minster of Aviation and Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation in the 2015 election, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, was, yesterday, at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to clear the air on the N40 million traced to his bank account.
The anti-graft agency formally invited Fani-Kayode last Friday to appear before a panel of investigators probing allegations of N840 million traced to him, which he allegedly received a few days to the 2015 presidential election from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Operatives of the agency had stormed the former presidential spokesman’s Aso Drive residence in highbrow Maitama, Abuja, last week after the letter of invitation was delivered to him. The operatives laid siege to the place for several hours before they left.
An ardent critic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, Fani-Kayode had lambasted the agency over a report in a section of the media that he was on the run from facing interrogators, boasting that he was not afraid of anybody.
He arrived the Idiagbon House, headquarters of the EFCC few minutes before 10 am and was immediately ushered into the waiting hands of operatives of the agency.
Dressed in a blue Kaftan, Fani-Kayode had a brief chat with one of the people who accompanied him and walked straight into the hall in company with two persons believed to be his lawyers.
After over seven hours of interrogation, he was granted administrative bail. He is to provide two sureties who must not be below a director in the Federal Civil Service and must own property in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). The sureties must deposit their international passport.
As at 8.45pm, he was yet to perfect the bail conditions.