Senator Hope Uzodinma, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Imo State has been arrested.

The Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of Public Property, chaired by Chief Okoi Obono-Obla confirmed his arrest on Sunday, November 11, 2018

According to Obono-Obla; “This evening, at about 8.20pm, operatives of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel For Recovery of Public Property at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport arrested the APC governorship candidate in Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, after disembarking from an Air Peace P47324 flight from Lagos.”

“The panel is investigating economic sabotage against Senator Uzodinma arising out of the failure of his company to execute a contract of $12m for the dredging of Calabar channel awarded by the NPA.”