APC tackles PDP over claims of Akpabio being behind Udom Emmanuel’s EFCC probe
The All Progressives Congress Media Network in Akwa Ibom has fired back at the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for alleging that Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, was behind the petition and viral dissemination of fraud and money laundering reports concerning his successor, Mr Udom Emmanuel, a former governor of Akwa Ibom State.
Recall that Emmanuel was on Tuesday grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following the money laundering, diversion of funds and stealing charges preferred against him by the Network against Corruption and Trafficking (NACAT).
The PDP, which is Emmanuel’s party, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba fingered Akpabio as being behind Emmanuel’s ordeal and the viral dissemination of the report, which he said was aimed at smearing his reputation.
Ologunagba said, “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerts of plots by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio to smear the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel in a desperate but failed attempt to discredit the PDP.”
However, the Director General of APC Media Network, Otuekong Iniobong John, while dismissing the allegation in a statement on Saturday, said Akpabio was too busy with legislative issues and wouldn’t condescend to disseminating the news of the arrest/invitation of former Governor Udom Emmanuel.
John observed that the primary mandate of the EFCC is to investigate and prosecute economic and financial crimes in the country, therefore, the reports regarding Emmanuel’s invitation by the EFCC should not be attributed to a smear campaign orchestrated by Akpabio or any other individual for that matter
