The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, over allegations of graft.
Sources close to the former PDP acting chairman, said that Secondus was picked up by operatives of the anti-graft agency in Abuja on Wednesday morning.
He is still being held at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters as at the time of filing this report.
EFCC sources said that Secondus arrest may not be unconnected with the revelation that he illegally received 23 luxury vehicles, including a Mercedes G63 and a Range Rover Autobiography, valued at N310 million from controversial businessman, Jide Omokore.
Secondus name reportedly popped up while the anti-graft agency was investigating Omokore who lifted crude oil repeatedly through his Atlantic Energy but failed to remit the money to the government.
Meanwhile, PDP in a statement by its National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwom, described the development as oppressive and unfair treatment against the party’s key leaders by the Federal Government.
“The party alerts the nation that the arrest and detention of its Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is part of the grand script by the APC-led Federal Government to decimate the opposition.
“We are also aware that plans have been perfected by the Federal Government to arrest and detain the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio and other leaders of the party on imaginary charges.
“Indeed, intelligence available to the party shows that the Federal Government, using its various agencies, is bent on destroying any opposition to the ruling party as all indications show that the government is more interested in humiliating the PDP than fighting corruption.
“Finally, we state that this war on the PDP and its leaders has indeed gone too far. It has now become a mockery of democratic practice,” the statement stressed.
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