Former interim chairman of APC and ex-Governor of Ondo State, Bisi Akande, has said that he has never given or demanded a bribe all his life.
In his autobiography “My Participations” unveiled last Thursday, Akande said his take-home pay while in office was nothing compared to what he earned when he was in public service and that he never ventured into collecting bribes or giving any while in office.
“As SSG and Deputy Governor, my take home pay was much lower than what I was earning as an executive of BP. In the two offices I held, I had no authority to approve government expenditure. I never took bribe and never gave bribe to anyone.
No one ever wrote any petition against me to the EFCC, ICPC or the police for any fraud or wrongdoing during my term of office.
I never gave or demanded bribe from anyone all my life. All of us who served in my government, all my commissioners and others, came out the way we went in. No one was richer and not a single one of my political…
Source: Linda Ikeji
