APC Accuses Akpabio of Plotting to Frustrate Buhari Anti-Graft War

 

According to Punch, the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State has accused the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio of planning to stop President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-graft war.

 

This was revealed in a statement made on Thursday in Uyo by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Ita Awak. He revealed Akapbio's claims that the current anti-graft war lacked sincerity and widely used for political oppression is a plot by the PDP Minority Leader to frustrate the clampdown on corrupt public office holders.

 

He reiterated that the Senate caucaus of the People's Democratic Party are currently making all eforts to thwart the anti-corruption war of Buhari.

“We, therefore, recall that some very powerful forces and influential personalities in our country sponsored the palace coup that ousted the military regime of the then Major General Muhammadu Buhari and truncated our national renaissance against corruption in 1985.

“It is, therefore, very worrisome to us that the current war that the APC government of President Buhari has begun in 2015 may suffer a grave setback unless the dark agents of corruption who have held sway, especially in the last eight years, are contained and brought to justice.

“With Akpabio’s false allegations that the current war against corruption lacks transparency, fairness to all and appears to be aimed at political adversaries, we are troubled that Akpabio is strategically using his present position as the Minority Leader to galvanise that segment of the powerful elite in our country who are determined to ensure that the Buhari’s war against corruption fails.

Awak also stated that Akpabio is among the people who had profited from high-level corruption, adding that the former governor would soon be exposed by the battle against graft.