Operatives of EFCC last weekend, reportedly raided a building housing an
apartment occupied by two sons of Atiku Abubakar. According to a report
by Premium Times, the raid on Aliyu and Mustapha Atiku-Abubakar’s
residence in the posh Maitama neighbourhood comes a day after claims
emerged that Atiku’s running mate, Peter Obi, had his bank accounts
frozen by federal authorities. Paul Ibe, a spokesperson for the Atiku
Abubakar family, confirmed the search to Premium Times, saying the
officers who conducted the “grievous act of intimidation” were “unable
to find anything implicating.” Neither Aliyu nor Mustapha was in town
when the anti-graft agents arrived as both are said to be studying for
master’s degrees at foreign universities but those with whom they share
the building were reportedly taken to the EFCC office and some of their
properties confiscated.The report said, “when the EFCC officers arrived
on Saturday, they met Theodore Orji’s sons at home, because they both
live in the same building. They asked to see the apartment of Aliyu and
Mustapha Atiku-Abubakar but Theodore Orji’s sons refused to show them,
saying their friends are out of the country, anyway.The EFCC operatives
then said they have intelligence that a large cache of dollars had been
kept in the apartment which they had come to recover. They forcibly
searched the apartment, but there was no hard currency or anything that
could be construed as fraudulently damning.” EFCC operatives raid Atikus sons apartment in Abuja
Operatives of EFCC last weekend, reportedly raided a building housing an
apartment occupied by two sons of Atiku Abubakar. According to a report
by Premium Times, the raid on Aliyu and Mustapha Atiku-Abubakar’s
residence in the posh Maitama neighbourhood comes a day after claims
emerged that Atiku’s running mate, Peter Obi, had his bank accounts
frozen by federal authorities. Paul Ibe, a spokesperson for the Atiku
Abubakar family, confirmed the search to Premium Times, saying the
officers who conducted the “grievous act of intimidation” were “unable
to find anything implicating.” Neither Aliyu nor Mustapha was in town
when the anti-graft agents arrived as both are said to be studying for
master’s degrees at foreign universities but those with whom they share
the building were reportedly taken to the EFCC office and some of their
properties confiscated.The report said, “when the EFCC officers arrived
on Saturday, they met Theodore Orji’s sons at home, because they both
live in the same building. They asked to see the apartment of Aliyu and
Mustapha Atiku-Abubakar but Theodore Orji’s sons refused to show them,
saying their friends are out of the country, anyway.The EFCC operatives
then said they have intelligence that a large cache of dollars had been
kept in the apartment which they had come to recover. They forcibly
searched the apartment, but there was no hard currency or anything that
could be construed as fraudulently damning.” 
