JUST IN: EFCC arrests Ganduje’s wife, Hafsat, over alleged corruption

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have arrested Hafsat Ganduje, wife of Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje.

She was said to have been arrested based Monday evening on a petition written against her by Abdulazeez Ganduje, her son.

The EFCC had summoned the Kano governor’s wife but she was said to have refused to honour the invitation.

The EFCC source on Tuesday morning said that Ganduje’s wife was picked up following her refusal to honour the invitation extended to her.

The senior official noted that she was quizzed immediately after her arrest on Monday evening by the crack detective team of the anti-graft agency.

It was learnt that her grilling on the issue would continue on Tuesday at the commission’s headquarters.

Abdulazeez in the petition had said he was approached by a property developer to facilitate the acquisition of some plots of land in Kano with some hundreds of thousands of the US dollars as commission.

He said three months later, the property developer discovered that the plots of land he paid for had been allocated to other buyers and he requested for refund.

Abdulazeez said the mother refused to honour the request, straining the relationship between him and the developer.

He was said to have fled abroad after filing the petition which was widely reported in the media.