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Media aides to Senator Peter Nwaoboshi have asked the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, to stop Misrepresenting Facts about their principal, Sen Peter Nwaoboshi, an All Progressives Congress, APC, chieftain in Delta State.
The team made the statement following release made by the commission signed by its Spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, and published by a section of the Nigerian Media that, the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial district, was bursted and hounded into correctional centre.
The media aides of th senator insisted contrarily that the claim by EFCC is mere propaganda, unbecoming of a supposed respectable organisation.
Expatiating on this, head of the media team Philip Elueme in a signed release on Friday in Abuja, noted that nothing could be farther from the truth from Uwujaren’s claims.
“Sen Nwaoboshi surrendered himself right from the time of conviction by the Appeal Court, even as he was not in court when the conviction happened,” he explained.
According to image makers of the embattled politician, the anti graft agency chose to play to the gallery by misrepresenting facts to drive home its vendetta against a law abiding gentleman and lawmaker.
“There is clear intent at disparaging Sen Nwaoboshi by dispensing such depressing falsehood to create wrong impression,” the statement stated further.
Narrating what happened further, the media aides said that the Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos convicted the Senator on a 2-count charge on July 1, 2022 after the judgement delivered by the Justice Chukwujeku Aneke, of a Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos which discharge and acquitted him on same counts brought by the anti graft agency.
The sum of N322 million was at the centre of the money laundering allegation, contrary to N850 million figure bandied by the agency.
“The distinguished Senator and two others filed appeal at the supreme court, Abuja, against the judgement of the court of Appeal, which is still pending.
Against EFCC claim that it arrested the Senator from his hiding place, the Media team insists that the Senator shortly after his conviction surrendered himself to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre but was refused entry by the authority on the ground that the Service was not in possession of his detention warrant from the court.
Thereafter, Elueme said further, the embattled Senator who is the Chairman of the Senate committee on Niger Delta Affairs, went again for the second time to the facility buy was again refused entry into the custodial centre due to same reason.
He said that the statement issued and signed by Uwujaren was in bad faith and ill conceived saying at no point did Nwaoboshi evade detention.
“Could he have gone into the correctional facility without a duly procured detention warrant or defiantly imprison himself,” the media aide asked.
According to the statement, Senator Nwaoboshi was admitted to the hospital where he had been receiving treatment and at no time was his whereabout unknown to the EFCC who had visited him there previously.
