The Minister of
State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva has denied the allegation
that he took money from the International Oil Companies, IOCs, the Niger Delta
Development Commission, NDDC or other agencies within his ministry for the sake
of the elections in Bayelsa.
Responding to the
allegation by Coalition for Transparency and Democratic Leadership in a
statement on Thursday, Julius Bokoru, the Special Assistant on
Media and public affairs to the Minister of state for Petroleum ResourcesChief
Timipre Sylva, challenged the Coalition to produce evidence of its strange
allegations.
On the allegation
that former governor of Bayelsa state purportedly acquired a certain facility
for the conduct of the recent gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa State, Bokoru
said that the allegations was by “far the pettiest and most preposterous,
comical even, if you look at it without the bile of its engineers.
“Further
investigation further revealed that the purported leader of the group doesn’t
seem to have any digital footprint save for publications that seems to suggest
he was arrested by the EFCC for claiming to be a prophet and duping a victim
the sum of 2.6 million naira,” he said.
Bokoru called on
Journalists to confirm and authenticate their stories before publication as
Journalism is a noble profession and there is an enormous number of Nigerians
practicing it with integrity and value.
“It is shocking this
story did not end at gossip blogs, where all unfounded, malicious and obviously
fabricated story belong”, he concluded.
The Coalition for
Transparency and Democratic Leadership had called on the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the alleged $30million used by the All
Progressive Congress (APC) during the 2019 Bayelsa gubernatorial election.
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