Wife of Kano State governor, Hafsat Ganduje, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of bribery and land fraud case made against her by her son.
The arrest is coming weeks after the anti graft agency invited her, but she failed to honour the invitation.
The EFCC had earlier invited Mrs Ganduje to report to at its Abuja headquarters on September 13, but she refused to appear, following which the EFCC threatened to arrest her.
According g to sources close to her, she later travelled to the UK at the time, to attend the graduation ceremony of her son.
Mrs Ganduje is under interrogation over allegations bordering on land fraud, as contained in a petition written by her own son, Abdualzeez Ganduje.
A competent but anonymous source, who is in the know, disclosed that Mrs Ganduje “she arrested this (Monday) evening.”
Mrs Ganduje was still at EFCC headquarters as of 6a.m. on Tuesday, according to information made available to CompassNG.
Recall that Abdulazeez Ganduje had dragged his mother to the EFCC, alleging her of using family power for private enrichment.
Governor Ganduje had previously been involved in a corruption-related scandal, which he had struggled to untangle himself from the public perception that he is a corrupt public servant since 2018, when Daily Nigerian published a series of videos that showed the governor collecting money from a government contractor.
Impeccable sources who saw Abdulazeez’s petition, revealed that he was approached by a property developer to assist in facilitating the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano, with some hundreds of thousands of US dollars, with at least N35 million naira “facilitation commission.”
Abdulazeez insisted that he paid the sum in US dollars to his mother, Mrs Ganduje,
“but three months later, (the property developer) discovered that the plots of land he wanted and had paid the first family for had been allocated to other buyers and he then requested to be refunded.”
