By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North

ABUJA — Former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, returned to the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday for further interrogation over the alleged laundering of N15 billion when he held sway in the state.

The embattled politician was grilled for over 10 hours on Monday and released late in the night but ordered by the anti-graft agency to report back yesterday morning.

Murtala Nyako

Nyako reported as early as 10 a.m. yesterday and is helping his interrogators with information relating to the way he spent the resources of the state between 2007 and July last year when he was impeached.

Vanguard learnt the former governor might be granted bail on self recognition to go home and return on a set date preparatory to his arraignment.

It was gathered that upon his arrival at the agency’s office, Nyako was asked to list his property—houses, cars, plots of land and cash balance as at the time he left office and how he acquired them.

A source in EFCC said the anti-graft agency had made progress in the investigation into the case, which would soon be pushed to the court, since other witnesses had earlier made useful information available to the agency.

“Don’t forget that we had earlier interrogated Nyako’s son and other top officials in the government of Nyako who had made useful statements to us. We will naturally arraign them in court once we are through with the investigation.

“Nyako is still with us and we may allow him to go after being interrogated today (yesterday), a top source in the agency, told our correspondent.

But a source close to Nyako revealed that EFCC was merely trying to build a case over nothing given the fact that the manager of the one of the third generation banks, who was forced to implicate the former governor in the said money laundering matter had since died.

The source accused EFCC of deliberately inviting and detaining the former governor for over 10 hours to stop the heroic welcome reception that was planned for him in Yola on Monday by his supporters and admirers.

“We don’t believe that the EFCC has any serious case against Nyako,” the source said yesterday.