ACN asks NDA to withdraw honours from Akpabio, Alison-Madueke

IT is the belief of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) was wrong in awarding honorary doctorate degrees to Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio and Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, last September.To preserve the tradition of the military institution and the integrity of the awards, the party has asked the NDA to immediately withdraw the awards from the beneficiaries.In a statement the party issued in Lagos yesterday through its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ACN said after a painstaking research on the NDA awards, it had discovered that the two awardees were unfit to be honoured by the foremost military institution, going by its tradition.He said: 'We found out that all past honorees have made direct contributions to the NDA, and were thus deserving of the honours bestowed on them by the military institution. But the same cannot be said of Akpabio and Alison-Madueke.'We are, therefore, compelled to ask the authorities of the NDA to recall the awards so as not to compromise the tradition and antecedents of the NDA as a military institution', it said, adding that 'these people may have recorded some achievements in their own rights, but they are not known to have contributed anything
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