EFCC confirms Shehu Sani’s arrest, gives reasons

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has now confirmed the arrest of Shehu Sani who represented Kaduna Central senatorial district between 2015 and 2019.

Recall that we reported earlier that the former senator was arrested for allegedly collecting $20,000 from the owner of ASD Motors on the grounds that he is very close to the EFCC boss.

A source from the anti-graft agency reportedly confirmed to P.M News that “He is now being quizzed in our Jabi headquarters in Abuja”.

According to the source, Sani collected the money from the chairman and CEO of ASD Motors, named Sani Dauda, under the pretence of passing it as bribe to EFCC boss, Ibrahim Magu.

“The case has been on for sometime. He was granted administrative bail and told to report weekly. But he breached the terms of the bail. Hence his arrest today”, the EFCC source said.

Shehu Sani, a human rights activist, was elected senator in 2015, under the All Progressives Congress platform. When he could not get the party’s ticket in 2019, he ran on the ticket of the Peoples Redemption Party, but lost to Uba Sani of the APC.

He has been a trenchant critic of the APC government, both in Kaduna and Abuja, since then.