The Peoples Democratic Party National New Media Group (PDP-NNMG) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to drop former Governor of Akwa Ibom state Senator Godswill Akpabio as a minister given his indictment by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission (ICPC).
The commission, Thursday, in a statement by its spokesperson Rasheedat Okoduwa said that it recovered hospital equipment meant for constituency project at the premises of Mma Obot Foundation belonging to Akpabio. The anti-graft agency said it recovered the items during its ongoing tracking of constituency projects around the country.
PDP-NNMG, National Coordinator Lere Olayinka in a statement, Friday in Abuja, said: “With the ICPC confirmation that he diverted hospital equipment that he ought to have delivered to a public hospital since March 2018 as part of his constituency project, in saner climes, Senator Akpabio would by now be apologising to Nigerians, especially the people of Akwa Ibom state that he tried to short change and asking for the withdrawal of his ministerial nomination.
“But because we are in Nigeria, under a government of a supposed man of integrity, who has turned the Presidential Villa to a safe haven for corrupt Nigerians, Akpabio will still carry on as if nothing happened and he will even be invited to speak at anti-corruption events soon.”
The group said Akpabio will be a minister without legitimacy, having been officially robed with garment of corruption by the ICPC revelation that he went to the ridiculous level of diverting a generator and dialysis machine meant for the well-being of Akwa Ibom people.
