(Bloomberg) -- Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed said the government plans to question opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar over his alleged role in a failed bank when he returns from a foreign trip.

“Any time Abubakar returns home he has questions to answer following the fresh evidence that we have that he benefited from slush funds that led to the collapse of the former Bank PHB,” Mohammed told reporters Friday in the capital, Abuja.

Abubakar, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, is currently visiting the U.S., according to a Twitter post he made yesterday. Neither he nor his campaign officials were immediately available for comment.

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