The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has apprehended a former governor of Abia State, Senator Theodore Orji at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The ex- governor has been on the commission’s watch list..
He was intercepted at about 10 am this morning and brought to the headquarters of the EFCC at Jabi, Abuja, for continuation of his interrogation.
He is presently being quizzed alongside his son, Chinedu, who is the Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly.
His son submitted himself this afternoon upon learning of the arrest of his father.
Senator Orji and his sons, Chinedu and Ogbonna, are under investigation by the EFCC for alleged misappropriation of public funds and money laundering to the tune of N551 billion.
