Pointblanknews.com authoritatively reports that the Rivers PDP gubernatorial candidate will on Monday, 7th October, 2022 appear before the Code Of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to answer questions bordering on alleged breach of conduct for public officials.
However, an incontrovertible source revealed that Gov. Wike has been reaching out to directors with mouth-watering offers so that the invitation is stalled and subsequently shelved.
“The governor is calling anybody associated with the case, offering them N100m so that they will leave the matter alone. An indictment on Fubara is akin to an indictment on him as well” the source said.
A letter of invitation as exclusively obtained by Pointblanknews.com had exclusively obtained the letter of invitation with reference number CCB/HQ/II&M/007/2267, dated 26th October, 2022 and signed by the Director of Intelligence, Investigation & Monitoring, Gwimi Sabastine Peter, who signed for the Bureau’s Chairman.
According to the letter, Mr Siminalayi Fubara is expected to appear at the CCB interview room, at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja I’m Monday by 11AM prompt.
The letter also stated that “This invitation is made pursuant to the mandate and powers of the Bureau as enshrined in the schedule, Part 1, Paragraph 3{e) to the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended Section 137 (a) and (b) and 138 (a) and (b) Penal Code Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 and Section 104 of evidence Act 2011”.
Pointblanknews.com recalls that days after being declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Siminalayi Fubara clinched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket.
Mr Fubara, is also wanted by the anti-graft agency over N435 billion fraud, however polled 721 votes to defeat a former Commissioner for Finance in the state, Isaac Kamalu, who scored 86, at the primary election of the party in Port Harcourt.
His ambition is widely speculated to have the blessings of the state governor, Nyesom Wike, who himself contested and lost the presidential ticket in the PDP.