Gun-wielding operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who earlier stormed the No 5, Zuma Close, off Aso Drive, Abuja home of former spokesperson of Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidential Campaign Organization and erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, have left the place, according to a report.
The report, by Vanguard, quoted an eye-witness who pleaded anonymity as saying that the operatives of the anti-graft agency decided to leave when hordes of pressmen began to storm Fani-Kayode’s residence.
“The ex-Minister had earlier cried out today that officials of the EFCC had surrounded his house in a text message he sent to several media organizations,” the report said.
It noted that EFCC had earlier sent a letter to Fani-Kayode’s residence, demanding his presence in their Abuja office by 10:00am on Monday, May 9, 2016, to explain his role in the presidential campaign funds of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2015 presidential elections.
“The letter was signed by Mr. Mohammed Umar Abba on behalf of the EFCC acting chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu,” the report said.
It added that Fani-Kayode, in a letter through his lawyer, had assured the anti-graft agency that he would duly honour the invitation, even as he had several times insisted that he was not hiding from the EFCC.