N5m bribery allegation tears NIDSUG apart

The allegation that a certain politician whose names were not disclosed had offered the sum of N5 million bribe to some Niger Delta Students Union Government (NIDSUG) Senators to impeach their President Obada Akpomiemie is tearing the union apart.

Akpomiemie was impeached during the inaugural sitting of the Senate at the River State College of Arts. He had earlier told reporters that those few senators were working with one politician in the area to have him sacked from his position. He said his problem started with the politician during the commissioning ceremony of a new hostel at Micheal Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike by the NDDC.

A source said the politician met exco members in a hotel for two days and later gave them N5, 000,000 to make sure that the president is impeached.

Other students from the region were divided into opposing blocs about the case with some throwing their support behind Akpomiemie.

The coordinator of the union in River State, Maxwell Othemidia, a final year student of River State University of Science and Technology, said Akpomiemie was still in charge and that he was not aware of the meeting that impeached him. “If there was any Senate sitting in this state I coordinate, how do you think I won’t know? There was no sitting not to talk about impeachment.”

Asked if he was aware of the N5m bribery, he said he could neither confirm nor refute it but added “when you see a bird dancing at the middle of road, its drummer is close by.”