Alhaji Babalele Abdullahi, the son-in-law of the presidential candidate of the 2019 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has been arrested on Saturday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Abdullahi, who also serves as the finance director of Atiku’s group of companies was arrested at his Maitama residence in Abuja.
According to report over twenty EFCC agents stormed his Abuja residence about 8:30 am in 2 regular vehicles, an 18-seater Toyota bus (registration Abuja CS 522 RSH) and a Hilux van.
They were however prevented from gaining access into the house until Abdullahi’s lawyers arrived.
Paul Ibe, Media Adviser to Atiku disclosed that: “They came with a search warrant to search the house and office of Babalele and found nothing incriminating.
“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.”
Attempts to confirm EFCC’s side of the story were not successful as the spokesperson of the commission didn’t respond to numerous phone calls to his known line on Saturday.
