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You’re Wrong On Akpabio – APC Tells Sagay Over Corruption Claims

SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, (THEWILL) – The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed corruption claims made against a former minority leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, by Itse Sagay, an anti-corruption adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Akpabio, former Governor of Akwa-Ibom state, is one of Buhari’s nominees for ministerial slots and has passed through Senate screening on Wednesday.

However, Sagay, a constitutional lawyer and professor, is reported to have expressed reservation about Akpabio’s nomination.

“The only nominee I am not satisfied with is Godswill Akpabio. I don’t know how he got into the list. That is the only one I have a reservation about,” the Daily Post quoted Sagay to have said.

“You know when we have a programme in which anti-corruption is number one, if anybody is under investigation or not, I don’t think it is wise to include him in that list. But the president knows why he did that. Apart from that, I am quite happy with the list.”

But the APC said the former Akwa Ibom governor “does not have any case with the EFCC or any other anti-graft agency” in Nigeria adding that it was surprised by the statement credited to Sagay.

“It is true that a petition was filed against the Senator at the EFCC by an Abuja-based lawyer soon after Senator Akpabio left office as our state Governor in 20I5,” the APC said in a statement from its spokesperson in the state, Nkereuwem Enyongekere.

“These cases were thoroughly investigated by the agency. The petitioner then withdrew the petition when he could not substantiate his allegations and the EFCC could not establish the veracity of the allegations in the petition.

“In that case, we note that Prof. Sagay was patently wrong in his assertion about the nomination of Senator Akpabio.”

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