According to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the new Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, is still being probed for alleged corruption.
Sheriff, who has been linked with the Boko Haram insurgency, was arrested by the commission in June 2015 for alleged embezzlement of public funds during his eight years tenure as governor of Borno State.
The PDP Chairman was said to have received over N300bn from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011.
At the time, Sheriff was released on administrative bail without being charged to court, after holding him from June 3 to June 4, 2015.
Speaking with Punch Newspapers on Monday during a telephone interview, Uwujaren said: “Sheriff is still under investigation. I cannot disclose the details of the investigations for now but the matter is already in the public domain.”
Meanwhile, a reliable source within the anti-graft agency was quoted to have revealed that the probe of Sheriff is not a witch-hunt but a normal criminal investigation.
He said, “Criminal matters do not have statutes of limitation. If a crime took place 30 years ago, we can re-open it at any point in time and that is what is happening.”
