Akpabio must purge himself of impunity he enjoyed in PDP — Eta, APC Nat. Vice Chairman (South South)

Akpabio must purge himself of impunity he enjoyed in PDP — Eta, APC Nat. Vice Chairman (South South)

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The National Vice Chairman (South-South), All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Hilliard Eta has warned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to purge himself of the impunity he enjoyed in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), saying “Here in APC, we can’t tolerate any form of impunity from the minister or anyone.”

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The APC National Vice Chairman, who was responding to questions in an interview with Sunday Punch, said by setting up of an Interim Management Committee for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), it was clear that what “Akpabio is embarking on is an illegal misadventure” because the law did not envisage any interim or ad hoc committee.

He said; “It is so shameful that we find it very difficult to understand what the mindset of the minister is because some of us think he is doing this for personal benefits.

“He claims the interim management is to allow for a forensic audit as ordered by the President but we find this statement fallacious and self-serving. First of all, does the creation of the interim management committee help the work of the forensic auditors in any way? Secondly, are members of the committee auditors that would help the standard external auditors coming?

“Thirdly, was the minister not one of those who nominated people into the governing board? Are you aware that one of the interim management committee members was nominated on the governing board? What could the person do as a member of the IMC that could not have done as a member of the governing board?

“We have observed that anytime you take the NDDC under the supervision of the ministry headed by a Niger Delta, he uses the NDDC for personal politics.

“We are calling on the president to step in. The president sent the lists to the Senate and they have been screened and confirmed. It will not be a good thing for the president to allow the minister to disrupt the good work of the NDDC and bring shame to the APC in the South-South and Nigeria in general.

“The minister must purge himself of the impunity he enjoyed in the PDP. In the APC we mean business because we are to deliver on the mandates of Mr President to our people. We can’t tolerate any form of impunity from the minister or anyone.”

Asked whether Akpabio could have set up the Interim Management Committee because of fears that the Governing Board could interfere in the work of the auditors carrying out forensic audit of the NDDC, Eta responded; “Does that not suggest him to be an interested party? We know the way he works. He cannot fool us by those political talks. We know he is the one who is hell bent to interfere on the work of external auditors.”