GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANT IMPLICATED IN AN ALLEGED FRAUD

Controversial Communique

Professor Sylvester Monye

As the race for the Unity House, Asaba gets fiercer among the battalion of aspirants, there is an indication that some of the aspirants are resolving to applying desperate means to achieve their tall ambition of governing one of the richest states in the country. The manoeuvre and scheming by these aspirants to win the ticket of their party and possibly the election to Unity House so as to loot  the state treasury has been identified as the principal reason some of the governorship aspirants are doing everything possible to bring each other down.

Meanwhile, a reliable source has hinted us that some of these aspirants who have employed the Boko Haram way to get the party's ticket had in their meeting at Abuja resolved to do everything possible not to allow a ''non' party member to be imposed on them and Deltans at large.

However, Prof Monye who is said to be one of the few governorship aspirants desperate for the Unity House, Asaba has taken his desperation too far as he has been implicated in alleged fraud. Our source confirmed that Prof Sylvester Monye had been involved in the forgery of the signature of another governorship aspirant, Hon Ndudi Elumelu.

It is reported that Hon Elumelu was not part of the desperate meeting conveyed by Chief Kenneth Gbagi but at the end of the meeting, a communique was issued with a forged signature of Hon Elumelu.

Further investigation revealed that the alleged forged signature of Hon Ndudi Elumelu's signature was carried out by Prof Monye in a desperate bid to give some credence to the meeting of these aggrieved and desperate aspirants who are now applying every dirty and ugly means to force one of them as the acceptable aspirant to the party.

A group ''Accountability and Transparency Assured''(ACATA) has waded into the forgery allegation and it is calling on the EFCC to wade in and arrest and charge Prof Monye for alleged forgery. The group condemned the act and expressed concern on how such a person could be entrusted with the affairs of a state.