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    BREAKING: EFCC grants ex-Gov Willie Obiano bail 

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has granted the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, bail.

    Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Abdulrasheed Bawa, disclosed this on Monday in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on the sideline of 5th Annual General Assembly (AGA) of the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIMA).

    Bawa, however, said the former governor is yet to perfect his bail conditions and as such, he is still in the custody of the commission.

    Chief Obiano, was arrested on Thursday at about 8:30pm by EFCC at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos when he was trying to flee to Houston Texas in United States of America few hours after handing over to professor Chukwuma Soludo.

    He was subsequently transferred to the headquarters of the commission, where he was grilled for days over alleged mismanagement of N42bn.