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Bayelsa APC Disowns Stalwart In Prisons Over Alleged Rape Offense

“Kpodo is standing trial before a Yenagoa Magistrate Court on a two-count charge of unlawfully detaining one Miss Teke Blessing on June 20, 2018, at his hotel in Etegwe, Yenagoa with an intention to defile her.

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Bayelsa State Chapter of All Progressives Congress APC has distance itself from a former Security Adviser to former governor Timipre Sylva, Richard Kpodo over rape charges.

Doifie Boukoribo, spokesman of the party through said Kpodo is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.

According to him “last weekend, there were widespread reports both in the social and mainstream media about one Richard Perekeme Kpodo.

“Kpodo is standing trial before a Yenagoa Magistrate Court on a two-count charge of unlawfully detaining one Miss Teke Blessing on June 20, 2018, at his hotel in Etegwe, Yenagoa with an intention to defile her.

“He is also on trial for raping the said Teke Blessing. He has since been remanded at Okaka Prisons, Yenagoa following the adjournment of his case to August 10, 2018.
He further noted “Ordinarily we would have opted to ignore these baseless and politically motivated allegations,

“While we wholeheartedly welcome his trial in a court of law for his alleged crime, we condemn the conscious or unconscious attempt to link our party with Mr. Kpodo. Headlines like “ Bayelsa APC Chieftain Charged for Rape’; “Bayelsa APC Stalwart remanded in Prison for alleged rape”; “APC Chieftain was thrown into Prison for alleged rape in Bayelsa”, etc amount to a structured representation of facts. He is not one of us. Richard Kpodo has not been our party member.

“It is an established fact that all along Kpodo has been working with the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, as every Bayelsans knows he is a member of the People Democratic Party (PDP) and he lives in the Bayelsa State Government house.

“PDP with its penchant of propagating falsehood, and expect the world to believe their lies.APC as a party is focused on delivering Bayelsans from this wicked Government that has suçceded in impoverishing the people of Bayelsa State and has got nothing to do with an Individual like Richard Perekeme Kpodoh.

“We recall that the said Kpodo with solid support from Governor Dickson launched a serial campaign of calumny against our leader, Chief Timipre Sylva who is a former governor of Bayelsa State. Only recently, he called Sylva unprintable names.
“As a party, we are not in a position to know why or when his ungodly relationship with Governor Dickson collapsed.

“However, we know Kpodo for his monstrous cruelty and notoriety. We are not surprised that at long last, he is having his day in court for the crime of rape. We challenge him to clear his name.

The charge of rape against Kpodo has nothing to do with the APC. We are a party of responsible people. We are determined to work for a greater Bayelsa State that will guarantee progress and prosperity for all in Bayelsans.”