On June 27 Mr Ogah was declared the winner of the last governorship election in Abia State by Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja. On June 16, he was arraigned by the police for alleged forgery and yesterday, these charges were withdrawn but he was then arrested as soon as he stepped out of the courtroom in Lagos.
When the case was called, the police prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, told the presiding magistrate, Mrs Kikelomo Ayeye, that he had the instruction of the inspector-general of police Ibrahim Idris, to withdraw the charges against Ogah and his co-defendants. However, as soon as Mr Ogah stepped out of the court room, he was arrested by the waiting EFCC operatives who drove him away in their van.
One EFCC source said the commission had received a petition from the complainant in the case against Mr Ogah. Other defendants in the charge were his company, Masters Energy Oil and Gas and an ex-employee of United Bank for Africa, Deji Somoye.
They were accused of conspiring with some persons still at large to forge a memorandum of understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas and Mut-Hass Petroleum sometime in March 2011. Mr Ogah and some other persons still at large were alleged to have forged the signature of one Mrs Bridget Adeosun.
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