{Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency has raided the offices of ex-Vice-President Namadi Sambo, the BBC has learned.}<\/p>\n
The raid was carried out on Saturday by agents from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as part of a probe into an arms deal, a source said.<\/p>\n
Mr Sambo is the most senior member of the former government to be targeted by the EFCC since President Muhammadu Buhari took office last May.
\nThe former vice-president has not yet commented on the raid.<\/p>\n
He was believed to have been out of the country when his office in the capital, Abuja, was targeted.<\/p>\n
Mr Sambo is not the first ally of former President Goodluck Jonathan to come under scrutiny from the anti-corruption watchdog.<\/p>\n
In December, Nigeria’s former national security advisor, Sambo Dasuki, was charged over an alleged $68m (\u00a347m) fraud. He denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
A wider investigation is currently under way into the disappearance of $2bn of government money, which was meant to be spent on the fight against Boko Haram Islamist militants.<\/p>\n
The Islamist militant group has killed thousands in north-eastern Nigeria in its six-year campaign.<\/p>\n
Mr Sambo served as vice-president for five years, until the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was defeated in elections last April.<\/p>\n
Mr Buhari took office with a pledge to tackle corruption in Africa’s most populous state and biggest oil producer.<\/p>\n
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