{"id":101725,"date":"2022-12-02T03:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=101725"},"modified":"2022-12-02T03:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T02:22:17","slug":"serving-senator-bassey-albert-sentenced-to-42-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/serving-senator-bassey-albert-sentenced-to-42-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Serving Senator Bassey Albert sentenced to 42 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Serving Senator and a governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Bassey Albert has been sentenced to 42 years in prison after he was convicted on Thursday for following charges of corruption preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Senator who represents Akwa Ibom North East District, was accused of receiving bribes of 12 cars worth N254 million from an oil marketer, Olajide Omokore, during his (Albert\u2019s) tenure (2010 \u2013 2014) as commissioner for finance in Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>The convicted senator was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, the ruling party in the state, before he defected months ago to the YPP, where he secured the party\u2019s ticket for the 2023 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>He was a major challenger to the PDP candidate, Umo Eno, in next year\u2019s governorship election in Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>He has been taken to Ikot Ekpene prisons, Akwa Ibom State, to serve his prison term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Serving Senator and a governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Bassey Albert has been sentenced to 42 years in prison after he was convicted on Thursday for&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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