Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed allegations he donated funds to a commercial bank...
Akpabio dismissed claims by Chief Edet
Nkpubre, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress that he was being
shielded from probe by Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel, as “baseless,
infantile and an attempt to ridicule” him and his successor.
Reacting to a report credited to Nkpubre,
on a purported donation of N1.4 billion, to a commercial bank, former
commissioner for Information and Communications in Akpabio’s
administration, Elder Aniekan Umanah, described Nkpubre’s allegations as
laughable.
Said Umanah: “I was part and parcel of
that administration and I also had the privilege of serving in the two
administrations. Whatever I say on this matter is verifiable.
“The purported N1.4 billion alleged to
have been a donation by the former governor is total falsehood, with no
iota of truth whatsoever.
“It was laughable that somebody of
Nkpubre’s age could embark on a mischievous call, that the former
governor should be investigated, based on a mere allegation, knowing
full well that no sane government would donate state funds to a
commercial bank, when in real practise, it should be the other way
round.
“I know where Nkpubre, former vice
chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (South South) is coming from
and why he is all out to drag the name of the former governor into the
mud. Because he failed to secure the support and endorsement of the
former governor, on his ill-fated ambition of becoming the deputy
national chairman of the party, at the national convention, he must,
therefore, bring Akpabio down at all costs.”
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