‘I only exercised my legal right’ – Effiong Bob speaks on petition against ‘Street Lawyer’

Former Akwa Ibom North-East senator, Effiong Dickson Bob, has breached his soundlessness connected his petition and consequent apprehension of Ewa Okpo, a ineligible practitioner popularly known arsenic ‘Street Lawyer’ successful Akwa Ibom State.

Bob claimed astatine a property league on Wednesday that helium was wrong his legal  right to study what helium considered an offence.

Recall that Street Lawyer had, successful a video circulating online, accused Senator Bob of engaging successful tummy infrastructure politics.

He described Bob arsenic the godfather of “political craftiness”.

Bob, miffed by Street Lawyer’s outburst successful the video, said helium had to study to constabulary for due investigations.

According to him, “I person the close to study to the police. When I report, I didn’t archer the constabulary to spell and apprehension somebody. What the constabulary bash is near to them. My work is to study by mode of petition. I volition not prosecute successful a thoroughfare combat due to the fact that that is against the law.”

Speaking connected what led to the disapproval by Street Lawyer, helium said it was owed to his comments defending the Governor Umo Eno. According to him, his comments were based connected rule and reflected his work arsenic a governmental person from the governor’s senatorial district.

He noted that nationalist sermon should absorption connected governance, verifiable facts and argumentation iss...