Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said those opposed to the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, were behind the attacks and spurious allegations against him.
He denied insinuations that he collected money from the former Managing Director of NDDC Isima Ekere or any other individual for that matter describing the allegation as “spurious and part of the conspiracy of those who have been milking the resources meant for the development of the Niger Delta for the past 19 years.”
He insisted it was part of their effort to frustrate the forensic audit of NDDC accounts.
Akpabio described the attacks against him “as a case of corruption fighting back because they have not foreseen that a forensic audit of the accounts of the commission could ever be ordered.”
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According to the minister, though, rather than joining issues with his attackers, he would remain focused to deliver on the mandate handed down to him by President Muhammadu Buhari, whom he insisted ordered the forensic audit.
He urged the Niger Delta People not to waiver in their support for Buhari assuring that the region would be hugely impacted by the present administration in the next four years.
The former governor of Akwa Ibom State noted that he had always carried out any assignment given him with seriousness, saying the current one would not be different.
He recalled his strides in Akwa Ibom state where he transformed infrastructure during his eight years stewardship, saying such would be the case at the end of his tenure as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.
