EFCC detains ex- Kwara governor, Ahmed

By Mosunmola Ayobami, Ilorin

The immediate past governor of Kwara State, Alh Abdulfatah Ahmed on Tuesday remained in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Ilorin, the state capital.

It was gathered that Ahmed who was also the commisssioner for Finance for almost eight years during the tenure of his predecessor, Dr Bukola Saraki was being interrogated by the EFCC on a N10bn projects executed during his tenure as the governor of the state.

The former governor reported at the EFCC office on Monday to honour an invitation by the anti-graft agency.

A source disclosed that Ahmed was invited at the weekend and presented himself to the agency at about 9am on Monday and had remained in the office as at 7pm on Tuesday.

The source which said he didn’t know the projects that the former governor was invited to clarify at the office, however said that “what I can tell you is that Ex-governor Ahmed is still with the EFCC and has not been released as at 7pm on Tuesday”.

All efforts to get the reaction of the chief press secretary to the former governor, Alh AbdulWahab Oba proved abortive.

Oba, had in a statement on Monday described the EFCC invitation to Ahmed as” not only routine one, but procedural.”