Posted on: 03:29 Mon, 02 Nov 2015



Controversial Former Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe,
has raised the alarm that he was being
persecuted for his support and
closeness to former President Goodluck
Jonathan.

Orubebe, who is being charged to the
Code of Conduct Tribunal for fraud,
told a press conference in Abuja that
he had not committed any offense to
warrant being vilified by the present
administration.

The former minister also declared
that he had never demanded and/or
collected a bribe throughout his 6-
year sojourn as a minister of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

But if your hands are truly clean is
there any need to cry out? Why not
go and defend yourself?
Orubebe said he was convinced that
the CCT was out to frame him given
the way it had already begun his
‘trial’ in the media when he had only
been served with the summons to
appear before the court on
November 9, 2015.

He said: “I was served with Code of
Conduct Tribunal summons on
Friday last week and the paper,
which I personally signed and
collected stated that I was expected
to appear before them on November
the ninth.

“I was taken aback by the news that I
had already been arraigned. This
tells me that it is an issue of witch
hunt which is not good for this
country. It is not good to take me to
the public court before being tried.

“The issues contained in the
summons are that I took N50 million
bribe from one of the contractors
who handled a project for the
ministry of Niger Delta and another
N20 million from the same
contractor as well as not declaring
my plots of land in Asokoro and
Kyame districts of Abuja. I find these
charges very empty and frivolous.”

– this is simple, go to the court and
prove that the charges are empty.
Simple!