The leadership of APC League of Professionals has accused those it described as mischief makers and ‘Bad Belle politicians’ of being behind the petitions against the emergence of Hon Stella Okotete as the ministerial nominee for Delta State.
The group particularly accused vested interests within the Nigerian Export – Import Bank where Okotete has served as Executive Director in charge of Business Development to be interested in derailing her nomination.
The group in a statement released to Hobnob News in Abuja on Saturday by the national publicity secretary of the group, Mr. Brown Justice was, however, mum on the allegations raised against Okotete by a number of stakeholders.
Hobnob News reports that a Senate report had urged her to resign her position as Executive Director on her lack of appropriate qualification while some others had alleged other misdemeanours against her.
But rebuffing the assertions, the APC League of Professionals said: