Emmanuel Uduaghan, former
governor of Delta, says he did not defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC)
to be shielded from investigation.
Uduaghan confirmed his exit from
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after attending a meeting of the APC
national caucus in Abuja on Tuesday.
He later said in a statement that
he joined the ruling party to attract development and bring a permanent
solution to the Niger Delta crisis.
Speaking during a Channels TV
programme on Friday, the ex-governor said the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has exhaustively investigated him but found nothing incriminating.
The programme anchor had asked
him to respond to insinuations that he joined APC “to escape the EFCC”.
Uduaghan, who governed Delta from
2007 to 2015, said: “I am the most investigated former governor. I have gone to
the EFCC in Lagos, in Port Harcourt, in Benin, in Abuja. So what kind of
investigations are you talking about?
“The EFCC had come to Delta … in
the last three years, took the SSG’s office for three days, it has never
happened in any state; checked files, arrested some people.”
He said Delta has the highest
number of petitions at the EFCC and that on some occasions, he was probed over
the same issue more than once.
“There is virtually nothing I did
in Delta that has not been investigated by the EFCC,” he said.
“Sometimes twice because one
person writes, another person writes on same thing. So what sort of
investigation is going to happen again?”
He said the anti-graft agency
“has virtually turned Delta state upside down” and so, “it (his defection) has
nothing to do with EFCC investigations”.
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