Former Niger Delta Minister, Elder Godsday
Orubebe, has denied allegations of
corruption levelled against him by the Code
of Conduct Tribunal, claiming that he is
being framed for his unalloyed support for
former President Goodluck Jonathan.




Orubebe, who is being charged before the
Code of Conduct Tribunal, told Vanguard in
Abuja that he had not committed any
offence to warrant being vilified by the
present administration.




The former minister also declared that he
neither demanded nor collected bribe
throughout his six-year tenure as a minister
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He said he was convinced that the CCT was
out to frame him given the way it had
already begun his trial in the media when he
had only been served with the summons to
appear before the court on November 9,
2015.




He said: “I was served with Code of Conduct
Tribunal summons on Friday last week and
the paper, which I personally signed and
collected, stated that I was expected to
appear before them on November 9. I was
taken aback by the news that I had already
been arraigned. This tells me that it is an
issue of witch-hunt which is not good for
this country. It is not good to take me to the
public court before being tried. The issues
contained in the summons are that I took
N50 million bribe from one of the
contractors who handled a project for the
Ministry of Niger Delta and another N20
million from the same contractor as well as
not declaring my plots of land in Asokoro
and Kyame districts of Abuja. I find these
charges very empty and frivolous.”




Source : http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/corruption-allegationi-find-charges-very-empty-and-frivolous-orubebe/