After admitting money from Alison-Madueke, this is how much Ali Modu Sheriff is returning to EFCC

– Ali Modu Sheriff is reportedly going to refund some money to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

– Sheriff who is having a running battle with the leadership of the PDP, reportedly agreed that he received N40 million from the money sent to Borno during the 2015 election

– The former chairman was granted administrative bail after he was grilled for more than seven hours

Embattled former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu Sheriff, may have agreed to refund to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) the sum of N40 million traced to his account by the anti-graft agency.

Ali Modu Sheriff reportedly agrees to refund N40 million

The Nation reports that this was one of the decisions reached by Sheriff and officials of the EFCC who grilled him for over seven hours on Wednesday, June 15, 2016.

Quoting a source in the agency, the report said Sheriff, who is currently having a hard time in his party, admitted to receiving the amount which was part of an alleged N24.29 billion cash facilitated by a former Diezani Alison-Madueke, a former petroleum resources minister, to the state during the electioneering of 2015.

Sheriff got an administrative bail after he reportedly agreed to refund the money, according to the report which said he was grilled at the agency’s office located behind the Directorate of State Services (DSS) office off Maiduguri/Damaturu Highway, Borno state.

“Based on previous interactions with some leaders of the PDP in Borno state, we isolated issues for him and asked him to respond to the allegation that he benefitted from the N450 million allocated to the state by Diezani as campaign funds.

“One of the issues was the N40 million traced to him through Hon Kumalia for security.

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“Sheriff admitted receiving the cash and made a firm commitment to return it as soon as possible.

“Based on Sheriff’s pledge, he was granted an administrative bail,” the report quoted the source as saying.

An earlier statement by Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman for the EFCC, had said: “A former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Shariff, was grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Maiduguri zonal office on Wednesday for his involvement in sharing the sum of N40m.

“Investigation is ongoing as Shariff is answering questions in the EFCC office at the time of writing this report.”

On June 6, Mohammed Wakil, the PDP campaign coordinator for Borno state during the election, confessed that Sheriff was one of the beneficiaries of the fund.

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Other beneficiaries were named as Nicholas Msheliya, Peter Biye, Kudla satumaria, Ibrahim Birma, Kangar, Engineer Mohammad Baba Kachalla, Kaamuna Khadi, Zarma Mustapha and Abdulrahman Taraba.

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