Babalele Abdullahi, a son-in-law to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in what is believed to be an intimidation of the opposition by the Muhammadu Buhari government.
Alhaji Abdullahi, who is also the finance director of Atiku’s group of companies, was arrested on Saturday, March 2, 2019 from at his home in Maitama, Abuja.
It was gathered that the EFCC agents numbering about two dozen came in 2 regular vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota bus (registration Abuja CS 522 RSH) and a hilux van.
They stormed Babalele’s Maitama residence at 8:30am but were prevented from gaining access into the house until his lawyers arrived
“They came with a search warrant to search the house and office of Babalele and found nothing incriminating,” Paul Ibe, a media adviser to the former vice president told journalists.
“They then proceeded to his office at Oakland Centre in Maitama and found nothing incriminating there. However, they took away some documents of landed property.
“Not done, the EFCC officials stormed his Wuse residence where they again found nothing incriminating after the search.”
“Afterwards, Babalele was taken away to the EFCC office in Wuse to make a statement alongside Mr. Lawan Ayuba,” he concluded.
A top official of the EFCC declined comment on the arrest. The spokesperson of the commission also didn’t respond to numerous phone calls and message sent to him on Saturday.
