Update

Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Peter Nwaoboshi, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment, Nwaoboshi was sentenced to jail on Friday by the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal. In 2018, the lawmaker and his two companies were arraigned before a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court over N322 million fraud and money laundering charges. The EFCC in suit number FHC/L/117C/18 arraigned the three defendants for acquiring a property named Guinea House, Marine Road, in Apapa, Lagos, for N805 million. The agency said that N322 million of the money was part of the proceeds of fraud. While the trial was ongoing, Mr Nwaoboshi defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari welcomed him to the APC, the senator and his companies were discharged and acquitted by Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke and the charges were dismissed – in June 2021. The judge ruled that the EFCC could not prove the charges filed against the lawmaker. EFCC later appealed the high court’s ruling and was successful at the appellate court, leading to the sentencing of the lawmaker yesterday.