A former Governor of the South-East state of Imo, Rochas Okorocha, has been arrested, Premium Times reports.
Okorocha was reportedly arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at about 4 P.M. on Tuesday at his Unity House private office in Abuja.
Premium Times reports further that the former governor was arrested after a five-hour standoff with EFCC operatives who trailed him to the location.
Sources said the anti-graft agency had repeatedly invited the former governor to its Abuja headquarters in connection with multiple corruption allegations against him.
Okorocha, who is now senator, reportedly declined to honour the invitation, a development that infuriated detectives who fanned out to get him.
The politician is currently being interrogated at the EFCC headquarters and it is unclear if he would be allowed to go home today.
Recall that on February 21, the former governor was arrested by the police for unsealing a hotel owned by his wife but which was shut by the Imo State government.