IGP invites Gov. Emmanuel’s campaign team for questioning over APC’s petition

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has elected to lead his team of Campaign Coordinators to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, who summoned them and accused them of various misdemeanours based on a petition by the All Progressive Congress Chairman in the State, Ini Okopido.
The Chairman of the APC in Akwa Ibom State had sent a petition to President Muhammadu Buhari with various allegations described as unfounded against the Udom Emmanuel Campaign Organisation.
The President minuted the petition to his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, who, in line with orders, sent it to Idris for immediate investigation.
The allegations border on destruction of President Buhari’s presidential campaign billboards in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, a charge the Peoples Democratic Party and the Commissioner of the Environment, Dr. Iniobong Essien, have denied and clarified.
The general plank for the invitation, according to the police, revolve around instigation to cause violence.
All the persons invited by the Inspector General of Police are the key officers of Udom Emmanuel Divine Mandate Organisation, the vehicle for Udom’s re-election.
Those invited to appear are the Chairperson of Divine Mandate, Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, a retired Nigerian Air Force personnel, former head of the Presidential Air Fleet and former Military Administrator of Akwa Ibom State; PDP Chairman in the State, Paul Ekpo; Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Onofiok Luke; Essien; Senior Special Assistant on Security, Fubara Duke; Chairman of Uyo Local Government Council; and Chairman of the Uyo Market Association.
Ekpo said before the team left for Abuja: “A security agency established by law has invited us so we have to honour. We obey laws here. It started with the billboard issue and the IGP sent a team from Abuja that investigated and even detained the Commissioner for Environment for no just cause. Is this their concept to intimidate and take over Akwa Ibom State that they have been orchestrating and boasting about? Acceptability is at the polls. Let’s go there. We are ready.
“The APC conducted their governorship primaries in this State and three persons were killed, no petitions, no investigations, no arrest, no prosecution. As a fallout from the primaries, a police station was burnt in Okobo Local Government Area and other sundry but weighty infractions, yet the police ignored the incidences even with photo evidence and outcries.”