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The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, has urged the state governor, Nyesom Wike, to react to allegation of N700 million bribery scandal hanging on his neck.
The APC in a statement issued on Saturday by spokesman, Chris Finebone in Port Harcourt, the state capital, said it has wondered why Wike has been mute on the issue.
It will be recalled that operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, grilled Rivers State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Samuel Johnson Okpoko, for allegedly collecting N700 million from the controversial $115m lodged with a bank by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke.
The said money was allegedly used to bribe INEC officials during the 2015 general elections.
The APC noted that “whereas the anti-graft agency might put the invitation of the governor on hold because of constitutional immunity, he is already being investigated. This is because immunity does not prevent the EFCC from investigating the allegation against the governor and keeping vital information for his trial after his tenure.”
The party said it wishes “to call on Wike to clear the air about this obviously damaging revelation which has painted the image of the office of the Governor and that of the State in opprobrious light.”
“It is the conviction of the APC that the governor owes it as a duty to Rivers people to confirm or deny with facts and figures the accusation which is raging on in cyberspace and in the traditional media like wild fire,” the party said in the statement.
“We urge Wike to tell Rivers people and Nigerians his role in the confessions made against him by the State Secretary of his own party, the PDP,” Rivers APC concluded.
