{"id":17585,"date":"2019-11-04T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17585"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T15:10:50","slug":"why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m being attacked \u2013 Buhari\u2019s Minister, Senator Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godswill_Akpabio\">Godswill Akpabio<\/a>, has said that those who are opposed to the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are behind the attacks against him.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the same people are also behind spurious allegations being made against him.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio, according to the Nation, said that instead of taking up issues with those behind the attacks, he would remain focused to deliver on the mandate given him by President Muhammadu Buhari, \u201cwho ordered the forensic audit\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former lawmaker assured the people of Niger Delta that President Buhari would make a huge impact on the region in the next four years and urged them to continue to support the current administration.<\/p>\n<p>The former Akwa Ibom State Governor pointed out that he had always carried out any assignment given him with seriousness, adding that this will not be different and recalled his strides in Akwa Ibom state as governor where he transformed infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister denied the insinuation that he collected money from the former Managing Director of NDDC Nsima Ekere or any other individual for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>He described the allegation as \u201cspurious and part of the conspiracy of those who have been milking the resources meant for the development of the Niger Delta for the past 19 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it is part of their effort to frustrate the forensic audit of NDDC accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio described the attacks against him \u201cas a case of corruption fighting back because they have not thought that a forensic audit of the accounts of the commission could ever be ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said that those who are opposed to the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are behind the attacks against him. According to him, the same people are also behind spurious allegations being made against him. Akpabio, according to the Nation, said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,371,97],"class_list":["post-17585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-buhari"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why I\u2019m being attacked \u2013 Buhari\u2019s Minister, Senator Akpabio - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said that those who are opposed to the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I\u2019m being attacked \u2013 Buhari\u2019s Minister, Senator Akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has said that those who are opposed to the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-04T15:10:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Akpabio.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"610\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Why I\u2019m being attacked \u2013 Buhari\u2019s Minister, Senator Akpabio\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-04T15:10:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\"},\"wordCount\":275,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Akpabio.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"Akwa Ibom\",\"Buhari\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-im-being-attacked-buharis-minister-senator-akpabio\",\"name\":\"Why I\u2019m being attacked \u2013 Buhari\u2019s Minister, Senator Akpabio - 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