By Moses Okorie
365Daily – Barely two months after ex-Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode dumped his former political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), his past still hunts him.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of Femi Fani-Kayode over financial fraud and forgery.
This was revealed to newsmen on Tuesday November 23, 2021 in Abuja by Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC spokesman.
The former minister is said to have been arrested and taken to the Lagos zonal command of the EFCC over allegations of fraud — including forgery.
In 2016, the anti-graft agency arraigned Fani-Kayode, a member of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential campaign team, alongside Nenadi Usman, a former minister of state for finance, on a 17-count charge bordering on alleged money laundering and diversion of N4.9 billion.
Others listed as defendants are Danjuma Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Dimensions Limited.
At the last sitting in October, the federal high court in Lagos had awarded a fine of N200,000 against the former minister for his absence in court to take his plea in the alleged N4.6 billion fraud.