JUST IN: Court Sentences Popular Nigerian Senator To 42 Years Imprisonment (PHOTO)

JUST IN: Court Sentences Popular Nigerian Senator To 42 Years Imprisonment (PHOTO)

Bassey Albert, the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for fraud by a Federal High Court in Akwa Ibom State.

Albert was arraigned in 2019 on a six-count charge of allegedly taking possession of six vehicles worth N204 million while serving as the state finance commissioner.

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He was said to have obtained one of the vehicles from Jide Omokore, an associate of Diezani Alison Madueke, a former petroleum minister. Omokore allegedly had business with the state when he offered Bassey the vehicle.

Presiding Judge Agatha Okeke found the Senator guilty of the offenses in her decision on Thursday. As a result, he was sentenced to Ikot Ekpene Correctional Centre to serve his sentence.

Albert was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party and a senator representing Akwa Ibom’s northeast district (PDP).

However, in July, he defected to the YPP, where he secured the party’s ticket for the 2023 governorship election.

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