Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that the case of alleged fraud involving former Akwa Ibom governor, now Senator Godswill Akpabio is not over.
The former governor earlier on claimed that he was a man of peace who has no case to answer with the EFCC, adding that the young man who wrote petition against him to the commission could not prove his allegation.
Akpabio said: “Those petitions to the EFCC have been sorted out. As I stand today, I have not been charged to court because nothing was found against me.”
But the spokesman for EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, while responding to Akpabio’s claim, said his case was still ongoing.
According to Punch, when Uwujaren was asked if Akpabio was still under probe, the EFCC spokesman said, “EFCC does not close cases or give clearance to anybody.”
In 2015, Akpabio was accused of diverting over N100bn from the oil-rich state between 2007 and 2015, an allegation which he has denied.