I will fight bloggers with venom in me – ex-NBA president Akpata

Olumide Akpata, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has vowed to fight bloggers who he said wrote that he was being sponsored by Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Akpata denied the allegation when he appeared as special guest at the  ‘Press Week’, organised by the Edo State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists. He also denied the allegations that he planned to buy the governorship ticket of the Labour Party (LP).

“That I am sponsored by Godwin Obaseki is an unfounded and baseless rumour,” the lawyer turned politician, said.

“It was bandied around by two irresponsible online blogs that I shall be going after with all the venom that I can muster because my approach to fake news is that you nip it in the bud and you deal with it before it festers.

“It has also been bandied around by some disgruntled politicians, including in my party, and I said to them that it is a very weak argument or reasoning.

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“My relationship with the governor has never been hidden, so it is only politicians who don’t know how to agree to disagree that quickly conclude that when two contenders sit together, they must belong to the same camp.”