ADC factional chairman-elect in Enugu faces ICPC probe

Fresh crises person deed the African Democratic Congress successful Enugu State arsenic members dragged the factional chairman-elect, Mr Augustine Akubue, to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for alleged impersonation.

The petitioners and acrophobic members of ADC successful Enugu, successful a petition submitted done their lawyer, T. M. Ozioko, Esq., of the Chambers of M.J. Teryma and Associates Legal Practitioners, Abuja, represented by Chika Idoko, erstwhile ADC Senatorial Candidate successful the Enugu North senatorial district, asked the committee to analyse Akubue for parading himself arsenic a prof without being a bonafide world unit subordinate of immoderate recognized assemblage successful Nigeria oregon abroad.

The petition dated April 21, 2026, and copied to the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), was received and certified by the Office of the Chairman of ICPC connected April 23, 2026.

It was titled, “Petition to Investigate Mr Augustine Akubue for False Claim of Professorial Status, Fictitious Inaugural Lecture, and Attempt to Mislead the Public.”

The petition work successful part: “We are solicitors to the Concerned Members of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) represented by Comrade Chika Idoko (hereinafter referred to arsenic ‘Our Clients’), connected whose acquisition we constitute the petition. Our clients person briefed us, and we verily judge them, arsenic follows:

“That 1 Mr August...