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Accusing Gov Emmanuel over OBA’s imprisonment nonsensical – Peters
The Special Assistant to Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State on Media, Rev’d Richard Peters, has described as unfair and ‘nonsensical’ the insinuations from some quarters that the governor had a hand in the incarceration of Senator Bassey Akpan, also known as OBA, the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party in the state.
Recall that Senator Akpan was convicted by Justice Agatha Okeke of the Federal High Court, Uyo, in a six-count charge bordering on money laundering and graft brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Speculations are rife in the state that Governor Emmanuel influenced the judgement against the embattled Senator to pave the way for the governorship candidate of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Umo Eno.
But Peters, in a press conference on Wednesday, wondered how Emmanuel could suddenly start working with Leo Ekpenyong, who petitioned Senator Akpan to EFCC and had recently accused Emmanuel of bribing Akwa Ibom Chief Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot to throw Barr Inibehe Effiong into prison, stressing that the governor is not even in the petitioner’s good books.
He said the case was decided on the natural grounds that OBA was guilty as charged, and people should stop attaching political colourations to the judgement.
“It has been observed that since the Federal High Court, Uyo, presided by Justice Agatha Okeke, last Thursday, December 1, 2022, convicted the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, informed and uninformed members of the public have taken to the social, print and electronic media to insinuate that Governor Udom Gabriel
Emmanuel is responsible for the travails of Obong Bassey Albert.
“As pathetic as the conviction of the Senator is to every well-meaning Akwa Ibom citizen, it is important to point out the injury such untruth, fueled by hatred, has caused the image of the Governor and his good intentions for the state and her citizens
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