The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested the Presidential candidate of Hope Democratic Party, HDP, at the 2011 Presidential election in Nigeria, Chief Ambrose Owuru over an allegation of obtaining N66 million from one Ikechukwu Eze, under false pretense.
Owuru was arrested on Wednesday following a complaint by Mr. Eze who alleged that sometimes in March 2011, that he paid the sum of N60 million to Owuru who is also a legal practitioner, for a property located at Nzimiro Street, Amadi flat, Port Harcourt, through Skye Bank, Olu Obansanjo Road branch, Port Harcourt.
The anti-graft agency in a press release signed by its Acting Head of Media & Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, stated that in the process of taking possession of the property, Eze discovered that a portion had been sold to another person. At this point, Owuru allegedly asked for another N6m to settle the other buyer, one Chief Austin Omire, which Eze allegedly obliged him.
Since taking the N6m, every attempt by Eze to take possession or develop the said property met with resistance prompting his petition to the anti-graft agency who subsequently invited Chief Owuru, but he refused to honour the commission’s several invitations, which led to his arrest.
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