Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has defended his embattled predecessor and political godfather, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, on the N700 billion fraud allegation towards him by the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC), saying his former boss had achieved nothing incriminating to warrant media hype.
He described as false, and spurious the insinuations making the rounds that Mr. Emmanuel has a case to reply over an allegation of fraud earlier than the anti-graft company, sustaining that “the allegations of misappropriation of N700bn just isn’t solely false however completely unfounded.”
Talking in the course of the just-concluded City Corridor assembly with the individuals of Abak Federal Constituency on the Abak Township Stadium, Governor Eno stated his successor, Emmanuel, “served the State meritoriously and deserves gratitude and appreciation.”
Recall that former Governor Emmanuel, who was Akwa Ibom State governor between 2015-2023, had visited the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday to honour an invite, and regardless of being allowed to go away the identical day and return to his house in Lagos, a piece of the media had reported that he was being held by the anti-graft company in relation to an alleged N700billion graft underneath his watch.
However, his successor in workplace, Governor Eno dismissed the rumours, saying such figures and allegations had been unknown to his authorities, regretting that the angle of the individuals attempting to pull down leaders who sacrificed for the frequent good of the individuals, tends to discourage individuals from committing to service.
Governor Eno stated: “As a result of on the finish of the day, the individuals don’t present you that gratitude. When a person has served his State meritoriously like Deacon Udom Emmanuel did, actually, he must be honoured, he must be revered.
“And so I don’t see a spot for this sort of info that is occurring. It’s not right. I don’t imagine it ought to go on. I don’t imagine so. So, I don’t know the place they get the figures from. I don’t know the place they churn it out from, however I can let you know as a sitting governor that, it isn’t right.
“It isn’t true. The media trial should and will cease forthwith. And we have to dismiss this challenge with a pinch of salt.”
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