The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and it’s corruption counterpart, the ICPC has begun full Investigation into the 8 year tenure of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Elombah.com has learnt.
The anti-graft agencies has consequently demanded records of all transactions from May 29th 2007 to May 28th 2015 from the Akwa Ibom state government and banks.
Mr Godswill Akpabio was 3 days ago forced to deny reports that he is planning to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress in order to avoid investigation and prosecution.
Speaking through his media aide, Anietie Ekong on Monday, Senator Akpabio said he was aware of the rumours of that he was planning to cross carpet and join the governing APC, but stressed that the false news was being peddled by APC propagandists.
Some online media had reported that the PDP, especially senators elected on its platform, were becoming suspicious of the former Akwa Ibom governor, after they got wind of his purported secret visit to the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
But Akpabio insisted that he was working with other PDP leaders to ensure that the party became formidable again, adding that he could not be participating in solution-seeking meetings of his party, while planning to defect to APC