Ibrahim Bakare/Port Harcourt.
Governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara (Sim), is expected to appear before an investigation team of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) at its Abuja head office today.
He is to answer questions based on an alleged breach of Code of Conduct for Public Officers.
According to the invitation letter, dated October 26, 2022, that has gone viral and signed by the Director of Intelligence, Investigation and Monitoring, Gwimi Sabastine, Fubara is expected to honour the invitation with the certified true copies of all acknowledgement slips, letters of appointment, promotion, records of service and payslips and bank account statements among others.
This invitation of Fubara is sequel to the petition filed by Ifeanyichukwu Obasi-Nweze , Director of Abuja based Volunteer Legal Practitioners for Morals and Values had, on May 11, 2022, petitioned the CCB to investigate Fubara as Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Government House, for alleged “Non/False Declaration Of Assets, Money Laundering And Corruption.”
The CCB invitation notified the Rivers PDP candidate to come along with Certified True Copies of documents including “acknowledgment slips of all your Assets Declaration to Code of Conduct Bureau from when you joined the public service to date.
“Copies of your letter of appointment, promotion letters, records of service and payslips from April to August 2022. All documents of your buildings and landed properties both developed and undeveloped in Nigeria and abroad.
“Details of personal companies and businesses. Details of their shares and Bank Account Statements of all your personal bank accounts from January 2022 till date.”