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