Following the sponsored protest staged last Monday by a civil right group at the zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Wuse 2, Abuja, against former Akwa-Ibom governor, Godswill Akpabio and demeaning allegations leveled against him were mere sabotage and sponsored campaign of calumny.
It has been
discovered that the mounting support from different quarters for Akpabio
and his adopted APC candidate, Nisma Ekere is a strong defeatist
approach by the sitting governor, Emmanuel Udom of PDP. This is coming
on the hills of Akpabio changing camp from the PDP to APC with a strong
and still growing numbers of supporters in his trail.
The
protest and the allegation leveled against Senator Godswill Akpabio was
described as blatant lies and a campaign of calumny orchestrated by the
group to pull down the senator, so as to stop him from winning the state
to the opposition party in the forthcoming general election.
Little
wonder, Gov. Udom feeling jittery about an intending loss at the poll in
a few months. Therefore, he has been using every strategy and
orchestrated plans to truncate and demobilized Akpabio and party’s
moving train. But the Senator remains undaunted and unshaken by the
false and fallacious allegations by Gov. Udom and his cohorts under the
aegis of these baseless and unfounded by this civil right group.
With
information at our disposal, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) is yet to take any plausible decision against Senate
Akpabio purportedly believing that it shouldn’t be now that the election
is fast approaching that they would now come up with these false
allegations.
Even at the live broadcast interview with President
Buhari, he declared that he had never interfered in the activities of
the anti-graft agencies, EFCC or ICPC on probing anybody including
Akpabio. With the civil right group listed properties in the petition as
belonging to Akpabio, there are no concrete evidences to support their
claim and allegation; even previous petitions had been withdrawn by
their originators because of lack of evidence.
This is not the first
time Senator Akpabio has been going to EFCC to respond to petitions
against him since he left office as governor four years ago. The protest
by the group and the petitioners were pursuing a ‘political vendetta’.
According
the senator in a recent interview stated that ‘I went to the EFCC
personally to ensure that I answered to the petition and I answered
them. I am the most investigated former governor in Nigeria. Go to
anywhere in the world; I don’t have a single house that I could sell,
whether in the United Kingdom or Dubai. I m one of the few Nigerians who
doesn’t operate any foreign account. And I challenge anyone from
anywhere in Nigeria to prove me wrong. So, forget about the contrived
negative story that you heard about Godswill Akpabio.’
It was
gathered that at the end of the protest which was allegedly ignored by
the anti-graft agency, was said to have ended with disagreement as
protesters were spotted at the front of Wuse Central Mosque, fighting
over money as the leader of the faceless group as he was said to have
shortchanged other members of the group as against the agree sharing
formula.
Even it was said the sponsored protest was hurriedly put
together by a top member of federal executive council in person of
minister of transportation Mr. Rotimi Amaechi who is believed to be
scary of Akpabio growing popularity in the South-South and this might
have an effect on Amaechi’s established leadership role and authority in
the entire south-south region; such that this leadership role will not
be consumed by Akpabio in the final analysis.
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