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EFCC detains ex-Kwara governor Abdulfatah Ahmed Sources tell PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Ahmed faced over seven hours of interrogation on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the immediate-past governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, over corruption allegations. Sources said the former governor arrived the EFCC headquarters at Jabi, Abuja, at about 10a.m. on Monday in response to an invitation extended to him by the agency. PREMIUM TIMES was reliably informed that the former governor was still being grilled by a crack team of the commission as of the time of filing this report at about 7p.m. on Monday. ....
About two months before he was to leave office, in 2019, as vice-chancellor of Kwara State University, Abdulrasheed Na’Allah wrote to then Kwara State governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, asking for a N74 million official vehicle; a vehicle he would go away with after he left office. This was despite the institution borrowing almost N400 million monthly to pay salaries, according to a panel that later probed the decision. The N74 million vehicle was part of the N100 million severance package that the panel indicted the vice-chancellor of going away with under controversial circumstances. The professor was given a chance to defend himself before the panel. He did not. ....