EFCC Rejects Uche Secondus Offer To Refund 23 Luxury Cars, Insists On N310m

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has
rejected an offer by the immediate past acting chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, to
refund the 23 luxury cars he got from a business associate
of the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani
Alison-Madueke.
Prince Uche Secondus, Acting Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP
The anti-graft agency had arrested Secondus on Tuesday for
illegally receiving the luxury vehicles from a controversial
businessman, Jide Omokore.
Secondus was quizzed for hours yesterday by EFCC
operatives.
The EFCC asked Secondus to refund N310million cash being
the worth of the vehicles since the value would have
depreciated.
The vehicles included a Mercedes G63 and a Range Rover
Autobiography.
He may however remain in detention for a while because the
anti-graft agency is still probing his relationship with the oil
baron.
Reacting to Mr. Secondus' arrest, the PDP in a statement on
Wednesday said the arrest was part of a grand script by the
All Progressives Congress-led government to decimate the
opposition.
"We are also aware that plans have been perfected by the
federal government to arrest and detain the Deputy Senate
President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Senate Minority Leader,
Senator Godswill Akpabio and other leaders of the party on
imaginary charges."
In the statement signed by Victor Kwon, its National Legal
Adviser, the party said: "Indeed, intelligence available to the
party shows that the federal government, using its various
agencies, is bent on destroying any opposition to the ruling
party as all indications show that the government is more
interested in humiliating the PDP than fighting corruption.