Akpabio’s corruption investigation: Buhari’s anti-graft war is selective – PDP

The ongoing corruption investigation of a former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, is an attempt at weakening the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and frustrate its rebuilding efforts ahead of the 2019 elections, the Nigerian opposition party has claimed.

The PDP Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, made the claim, while addressing journalists at the party’s secretariat in Abuja on Sunday.

Accusing President Muhammadu Buhari of “hypocrisy, double standards and dictatorial proclivities”, Mr. Metuh wondered why only the petition against Mr. Akpabio would be acted on, when there were petitions against former governors of Lagos and Rivers states, Babatunde Fashola and Rotimi Amaechi, who are members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Instead of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, to act on the petitions against Messrs. Fashola and Amaechi, Mr. Metuh said, they were being “rewarded” with ministerial appointments.

Both men have been nominated as ministers by President Muhammadu Buhari with Mr. Fashola already cleared by the Senate.

He said, “On the issue of Senator Godswill Akpabio, we invite Nigerians to note that in the three rich states of Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and Lagos states, there were petitions against their former governors. Whereas the former APC governors of Lagos and Rivers were rewarded with ministerial nominations, their Akwa Ibom PDP counterpart and the current Senate Minority Leader is being hounded by the EFCC…

He urged Mr. Buhari to stop being “selective” with the “dictatorial proclivities that characterized APC Government.”

-Premium Times