Akpabio Sends Stern Warning To Media Critics

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By UbongAbasi Ise

Some individuals known to be launching smear campaigns against the minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, may not be lucky next time as the minister says enough is enough.

In the press statement signed and released to the media by Mr. Anietie Ekong, the Chief Press Secretary to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, overt warning was sent to those planning attack on Senator Akpabio in the media and seeking to heat up the polity as the result of his withdrawal from the rerun of Akwa Ibom Northwest Senatorial election that would take place on January 25, 2020.

“Having withdrawn from the contest to face higher national responsibilities, we caution political jobbers to desist forthwith from their planned smear campaigns against Senator Akpabio and unnecessarily heating up the polity.

“The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Akpabio will have no choice than to invoke the full weight of the law against anyone who engages in any plot to smear his name through sponsored, fabricated petitions. A word is enough for the wise,” the statement reads.

Senator Akpabio, while on inspection visit to some states in the Niger Delta to assess the projects executed by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, restated his position in Uyo that he would not be a candidate in the election because of higher national responsibilities as the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.

He however declared his full support for a former Member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ekperikpe Ekpo whom his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had picked as his replacement, having emerged as the runner up in the primaries, urging his supporters and the people of Essien Udim to massively vote for him.

The statement noted that the APC had through the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the then Acting National Secretary, Mr. Victor T. Giadom in compliance with the requirement for 45 days notice to be given for the substitution of candidates, written to the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to submit the name of Ekpo as a replacement for Senator Akpabio in the election, adding that “this was acknowledged by INEC.”

©The Sensor Newspaper



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