Alleged breach of contract: APC gov candidate, Uzodinma, arrested

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of
Public Property said on Sunday that it had arrested the
governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Imo
State, Hope Uzodinma, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
in Abuja.

Chairman of the panel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, said in a short
message to our correspondent on Sunday that the panel arrested
Uzodinma, the senator representing Imo West Senatorial District,
for the failure of his company to execute a contract of $12m for
the dredging of Calabar channel.

According to the panel’s chairman, the contract was awarded by
Nigerian Ports Authority.

Obono-Obla said Uzodinma had been evading arrest for about a
year but was arrested at about 8.20pm at the Abuja airport.

The statement read, “This evening, at about 8.20pm, operatives
of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of
Public Property at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport
arrested the APC governorship candidate in Imo State, Hope
Uzodinma, after disembarking from an Air Peace P47324 flight from
Lagos.

“The panel is investigating economic sabotage against Senator
Uzodinma arising out of the failure of his company to execute a
contract of $12m for the dredging of Calabar channel awarded by the
NPA.”