The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has filed a suit against Senator Andy Uba, a former federal legislator representing Anambra South, over allegations of fraud.
Uba, a former presidential aide under the Obasanjo administration, is facing a two-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/538/2024 alongside two others – Crystal Uba and Benjamin Etu.
The charge, dated Tuesday, October 8, 2024, was filed before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja.
In count one, Uba, Crystal, Etu and one Hajiya Fatima (now at large), were alleged to have conspired amongst themselves to commit the offence in 2022.
They were charged with deceiving George Uboh by allegedly claiming they could secure the appointment of the managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission for anyone willing to pay N400 million.
Uboh had written a petition dated April 5, 2023, to the IGP stating that he had documentary and voice-recording evidence.
On Wednesday, November 13, M.L. Anthony, prosecution counsel, told the court that the defendants had been evading the service of the court documents despite being given administrative bail.
Justice Ekwo adjourned the matter to February 18, 2025, for arraignment of the defendants.
Uba won the 2007 Anambra State gubernatorial election on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party but was declared unduly elected by the Supreme Court of Nigeria a month later.
He contested for the position in 2021 and lost to incumbent governor, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
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