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SENATOR UZODINMA SHUNS PRESIDENTIAL PANEL

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SENATOR UZODINMA SHUNS PRESIDENTIAL PANEL

The governorship candidate of the APC in Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Tuesday, November 13, defied invitation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property to him to appear and answer questions over alleged fraud against him.

Spokesperson of the panel, Ms Lucie-Ann Laha, disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja late on Tuesday after a long wait by the panel’s officials and newsmen for the senator.

Anaedooline recalls that Uzodinma was on Sunday, November 11, arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the police at the instance of the panel.

He was arrested in connection with a case on an alleged failure of his company to execute a contract of 12 million dollars for the dredging of Calabar Port.

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He was released the same day after an interrogation session with officials of the panel, who released him and directed that he should return on Tuesday for the continuation of the probe.

The spokesperson said the senator had defied the invitation by failure to appear at the panel’s office as agreed.

An earlier statement by the chairman of the panel, Okoi Obono-Obla, said that Uzodinma had been evading arrest for about a year.

“The panel is investigating economic sabotage against Senator Uzodinma arising out of the failure of his company to execute a contract of 12 million dollars for the dredging of Calabar channel awarded by the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA),” the statement said.

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