Sen. Hope Uzodinma, the All Progressives Congress, APC, guber candidate in Imo State on Tuesday failed to appear before the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Property to him to answer questions over alleged fraud against him.
Spokesperson of the panel, Ms Lucie-Ann Laha, made this to newsmen in Abuja late on Tuesday after a long wait by both panel officials and newsmen for the senator.
Uzodinma was arrested on Sunday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the police at the instance of the panel over the alleged failure of his company to execute a contract of 12 million dollars for the dredging of Calabar Port channel.
He was later released same day after interrogation by officials of the panel, who released him and directed that he should return on Tuesday for continuation of the probe.
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Laha said the senator by failing to appear at the panel’s office as agreed had defied the invitation
An earlier statement by Chairman of the Panel, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, said that Uzodinma had been evading arrest for about a year.
“The panel is investigating economic sabotage against Sen. Uzodinma arising out of the failure of his company to execute a contract of 12 million dollars for the dredging of Calabar channel awarded by the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA),” the statement said.
