I only honoured EFCC's invitation, not arrested - Soludo

A statement from Soludo’s media office in Abuja on Friday also said the former CBN governor voluntarily went to the EFCC office to honour the commission’s invitation and that he was neither arrested nor escorted to the office by operatives of the commission as was reported.
 
"We want to put it on record clearly that the media reports that Professor Chukwuma Soludo was arrested by the operatives of the EFCC in Abuja is totally false or written in error.
 
"The fact of the matter is that the EFCC wrote a letter to Prof. Soludo inviting him to their Abuja office on the 10th of January 2013. EFCC’s invitation letter to Prof. Soludo was dated 20th December 2012.
 
"Prof. Soludo was abroad attending to several international engagements when the letter was sent to his aides. As a law abiding citizen of the country, Prof. Soludo returned to Nigeria in the New Year and honoured EFCC invitation on January 10th as requested. He voluntarily went from his home to EFCC office on Thursday. He was neither arrested nor escorted by any operative of the Commission."
 
However a top official of the anti-graft agency who spoke to THISDAY newspaper disagreed with Soludo's spokesman, adding that Soludo was "on Thursday arrested by the commission" and quizzed for several hours over complicity in allegations of underhand dealing in the award of contract for the printing of N20 polymer notes between 2006 and 2008.
 
The source further said that the erstwhile CBN governor was granted administrative bail at about 10pm on Thursday’s night, adding that part of the freedom deal was that he should produce two sureties who must be either a director, permanent secretary in the Federal Civil Service or its equivalent.