[NEWS] Senator Bassey Albert Says EFCC Won’t Make Me Defect

The Congressperson speaking to the Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial Locale, Bassey Albert, has said no measure of terrorizing by the Monetary and Money related Violations Commission will influence him to desert the People groups
Vote based Gathering.

Albert, who is the main PDP representative left in Akwa Ibom, said he was prepared to remain by the gathering through which he won the decision, including that if comparable circumstance introduced itself in future, he would in any case stay with the gathering.

The EFCC on Monday recorded a 14-count charge at an Ikeja High Court against Albert for purportedly accepting 12 autos worth N254m somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2014 while filling in as the fund official amid the organization of Gov. Godswill Akpabio as fixes from one Olajide Omokore, a specialist, who was similarly summoned on seven means supposedly offering satisfaction and influences to an open authority.

Talking amid a media occasion on Tuesday in Uyo, Albert noticed that it was entertaining for him to be charged to court by virtue of his stewardship as an official in the express nearly three years back.

He stated, "As an official, I answered to my senator. Along these lines, on the off chance that anyone is to be charged to court it ought to be the senator to whom I revealed.

"Today, I've woken up to see I've been charged to court. I don't have any business there. My attorneys are prepared. Yet, whatever case you are seeing is arranged by somebody in this state to constrain me into the APC. You can't let me know whether I hop over to APC, all charges will be dropped."