How Udom’s Wife Begged To Receive Aisha Buhari – APC Reveals

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By UbongAbasi Ise

The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has come out to clear the air on the embarrassing fracas between the wife of  the incumbent State Governor and Senator Akpabio’s wife which ensued recently when the wife of Nigerian President, Dr. (Mrs) Aisha Buhari, touched down at Victor Attah International Airport in Uyo.
In a press statement signed by the APC state chairman, Mr. Ini Okopido, the party revealed that  few days to the event, Aisha Buhari’s Protocol staff had called Mrs Unoma Ekaette Akpabio, wife of Senator Akpabio, to inform her that Mrs. Martha Udom Emmanuel had requested to join the welcome party at the airport to receive Mrs. Buhari.
The party noted that the Wife of the President was not a guest of the Akwa Ibom State Government. Neither was she in the state to participate any activity of the state government. She was invited by the NDE, an agency of the Federal Government, in collaboration with the Office of Senator Godswill Akpabio, as the Special Guest of Honour in an empowerment programme that was funded by Senator Akpabio.
The party said Mrs. Akpabio had no objection to the coming of Mrs. Emmanuel to airport as she was duly invited by the Presidential Villa to be at the airport to receive Aisha Buhari, together with all other women and dignitaries from the state.

The statement has it that about 10.30am on Friday, the day of the event, Mrs. Akpabio had led about 25 women, including Mrs. Ese Ekere, wife of our governorship candidate, Obong Nsima Ekere, to the airport. Other women leaders like Mrs Florence Umana were also at the airport. The usual traditional dancers and brass band were on hand to add colour to the airport ceremony. But Mrs Martha Udom Emmanuel was not seen at the airport then; although it was later learned that she was seated in her vehicle parked at another part of the airport, away from where the waiting party was.
According to APC, “If Mrs Martha Udom Emmanuel had arrived the airport early enough; or if she had come out of her car on time to meet the advance party of the President’s wife, she would have been to the tarmac right on time to meet our august visitor, Her Excellency. Rather, Mrs Udom Emmanuel, in her arrogance, preferred to wait in her car till all other women got to the plane.” The statement further disclosed that when the President’s wife arrived about 12.30pm, the welcome party, led by Mrs Akpabio, moved to the tarmac, still unaware that Mrs Udom Emmanuel was around.
While apologizing to the people of Akwa Ibom State for the unwholesome airport scenario, the APC said the skirmish was perpetrated by an unruly crowd of PDP supporters led by the governor’s wife and aided by security personnel from the Akwa Ibom State Government House with the aim to disrupt the airport ceremonies for the wife of our president, create confusion at the airport and force the visitors to return to Abuja.

©The Sensor Newspaper

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