Trouble For Akpabio As Rented Crowd Used For APC Presidential Primary Sues Him

Former Senate Minority Leader, and immediate past Minister of Niger Delta, God's will Akpabio is in the middle of a litigation progress after he was sued for not paying for a service rendered to him.

Akpabio, a two-term Governor of Akwa-Ibom State was dragged to court over his inability to pay for a crowd he reportedly rented to boost his presidential aspiration.

Akpabio had contested the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) primaries but was the first to step down for Bola Tinubu, the party's flagbearer at the venue of the convention.

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According to court documents seen by reporters, the case was filed August 8, 2022 at the Wuse District Court, FCT, Abuja.

Akpabio and Etta Elijah according to the court documents is being sued by Ejikeme Ugwu, the National Legal Adviser of Presidential Support Committee (PSC), for failing to pay a sum of 680,000 naira “being amount agreed to be paid for logistics for thirty four attendees, Sixty Thousand Naira (N60,000) only for hiring of two buses and Twenty Thousand Naira (N20,000) only for designing of placards which the Defendants have refused to pay.”

Akpabio is incidentally in the National Coordinator of the PSC, with Etta the administrative officer of the group.

Ugwu in the suit is claiming that just a partry 100,000 naira of the agreed sum was paid for the successfully executed contract.

He is therefore praying the court for the following:

“a. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendants to pay the CLAIMANT the Six Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira (N60,000) only being the amount paid to thirty four persons as logistics that received the 2nd Defendant at the Enugu airport.

“b. AN ORDER of this Honourable Court directing the Defendant to pay the CLAIMANT the sum of Sixty Thousand Naira (N60,000) only being amount paid for the two buses that conveyed the attendees to the airport and Dome Event Center from the party Secretariat in GRA, Enugu.

“c. AN ORDER of this Honorable Court directing the Defendant to pay the CLAIMANT the sum of Twenty Thousand which he paid to the Designer who designed the placards that was used at the airport reception.

“d. AN ORDER of Honorable Court awarding ten percent (10%) interest and twenty percent (20%) post judgement interest.

“e. Three Hundred Thousand Naira (N300,000) being cost of action.”