one of the first four letters of the alphabet) are currently at daggers
drawn over a deal that has gone bad between them.
According to sources privy to this deal, those involved in the deal were
alleged to have pilfered billions of naira belonging to the state through
nonexistent contracts with the aim of buying a bank in neighbouring Ghana.
However, the bid to buy the bank failed due to some regulatory issues and
the erstwhile partners are now at loggerheads on how the money should be
shared. Our source indicated that the governor wants to invest the money on
winning the support of key influencers in the state for his pet project of
imposing the current Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr Udom
Emmanuel as the next governor of the state but his collaborators would
rather share the money.
Our sources who spoke to us on conditions of anonymity informed that a
group of concerned Akwa Ibomites within and outside Nigeria have already
prepared a petition which would soon be submitted to the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the need for the anti-corruption
agency to investigate the financial crimes going on in the state.
They hinted about another deal in which the governor and his friends
allegedly made a bid to buy Oak Petroleum through a former MD of one of the
leading multinationals in the oil and gas sector and “we have it on good
authority and with documents to back up these claims that the money was
sourced from a contract which has already been executed by Julius Berger
but the government is claiming otherwise.
There are a lot of these types of shady deals going on and we are ready to
expose the governor and invite the EFCC only if he will allow them do their
job” Our source concluded.
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