Ex-APC Chairman Eba accuses Otu of fraud, property grab, government fires back

Former president of the All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Cross River State, Alphonsus Ogar Eba, has accused the medication of Governor Bassey Otu of alleged fraudulent activities, including the diversion of nationalist assets and awarding of projects to associates.

Eba, who is present the moving mate to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Arthur Jarvis Archibong, made the allegations astatine a property briefing astatine the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Press Centre successful Calabar.

He alleged that the medication had converted a national authorities rubber property established successful the 1950s nether the erstwhile Eastern Region Premier, Sir Michael Okpara, into a backstage lipid thenar estate.

“I person the records and grounds astir however Governor Bassey Otu has converted the rubber property established by Michael Okpara to his backstage lipid thenar estate,” Eba said.

He further alleged that the politician and his wife, Bishop Eyoanwan Otu, had acquired respective properties crossed the authorities since assuming office.

Eba, who served arsenic APC president during the medication of erstwhile Governor Ben Ayade and continued into the archetypal 2 years of Otu’s administration, besides alleged that respective projects being executed by the authorities were fraudulent oregon de...