Osagie Ize-Iyamu
Former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Edo state Osagie Ize-Iyamu and former deputy governor of the state Lucky Imasuen have been remanded by a Federal High Court in Benin City.
Others are the Edo state PDP chairman, Dan Orbih, former member of the House of Representatives Tony Azegbemi and Efe Anthony.
They were remanded following their arraignment on Thursday, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on an 8-count charge of laundering the sum of N700 million.
The presiding judge, Justice P. I. Adjokwu, ordered that they be remanded after rejecting a plea by counsel to Ize-Iyamu, Charles Edosomwan, that they be kept in the custody of the commission.