Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers state, has arrived at the home of Mary Odili, a justice of the supreme court following the raid of her Abuja residence by suspected operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday.
Multiple sources said that the operatives who were accompanied by policemen, went to the judge’s home to execute a search warrant as part of investigations into her husband, Peter Odili, who is a former Governor of Rivers State.
The supreme court judge is the wife of Peter Odili, former governor of Rivers, who is currently on the watch-list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Odili, who was governor from 1999 to 2007, obtained a perpetual injunction from a Federal High Court in 2007 which barred the EFCC from investigating or prosecuting him.
In 2020, he approached a Federal High Court again to get another injunction to stop an impending probe.
Abiye Sekibo, former minister of transportation; Raymond Dokpesi, founder of DAAR communications; Austin Okpara, former deputy speaker of the house of representatives; Okon Aniete and Lee Maeba, a former senator, are among those also present at Odili’s residence.
