Ostensibly NOT Senator Godswill Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa-Ibom State, now Senate's Minority Leader as many would have anticipated, but a an unnamed ex-military governor of the is reportedly under the probe of the anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC in connection with N450million which was allocated to the state out of the N23.29billion allegedly provided by former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The cash is believed to have been for INEC officials as a bribe to change the results of the 2015 presidential election our source, The nation Newspaper reports
The anti-graft agency had questioned a former Military Administrator of the state and others in connection with the bribe.
But during one of the interrogation sessions, one of the suspects said the ex-governor allegedly “deducted N150million out of the bribe sum for personal use”.
“We are likely to invite the ex-governor for interaction,” the EFCC source added.
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