Candidates with corruption cases lead race for Nigerian Senate President's seat

Mr Yari, the senator-elect for Zamfara West, 55, served in various roles in his former party, the All Nigeria’s Peoples Party , until 2007 when he won an election to the House of Representatives to represent his Anka/Talata Mafara Federal Constituency.

Unlike Messrs Kalu and Akpabio, Mr Yari had not been elected to the Senate, although he had been a member of the House of Representatives. Mr Yari’s ambition to go the Senate in 2019 after completing his second term as governor was truncated by a Supreme Court judgement that voided the victory of all APC candidates in the state.

In February 2021, EFCC detained him for a long interrogation session with detectives at its Lagos office, overAbout a month before his detention by the EFCC, the ICPC had, in an apparently unrelated case, obtained an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja for final forfeiture of suspicious funds found in bank accounts bearing his name and the names of his companies.

Although EFCC has yet to publicly disclose its case against Mr Yari, sources and court filings have provided a glimpse. The NGF allegedly mismanaged the funds through the spurious engagement of consultants for the recovery of the money. The funds were being paid to the states by the federal government.

..anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). None of these seems to be a factor in APC’s equation for choosing its candidate for the Senate President. The days when the anti-corruption profile of the outgoing leader...

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