FORMER minister of state for defence Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has arrived back in Nigeria from the US and agreed to submit himself to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over graft allegations.
Senator Obanikoro has been having a running battle with the anti-graft agency on allegations bordering on financial crimes. He left for the US shortly after his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost the 2015 elections and he ceased being a minister.
Since then, the EFCC accused him of using his children to take out government contracts that were never executed. In a separate charge, Senator Obanikoro was also implicated in the Ekiti State elections scandal, after it was alleged that he bribed soldiers to manipulate the polls in favour of the PDP.
When the allegations were initially made, Senator Obanikoro had initially vowed not to return to the country alleging that it was persecution by the government as a means to discredit him. It is also not immediately clear when he planned to submit himself to the EFCC.
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