The young lad, named: John Obot of Uyo Book Club, had embarked on a 145 hours reading aloud marathon in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.
Browsing: Chief Godswill Akpabio
In a letter dated September 7, 2021, signed by MIIVOC’s Executive Director, Dr. Walter Duru, and addressed to the attorney-general, the organization made a single demand of a copy of the forensic audit report.
On Saturday, angry protesters drawn from the faction loyal to Senator Akpabio had protested at the APC secretariat in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, seeking the cancellation of the ward congress.
According to the former governor: “In this period of uncertainty, many have lost their ethics. That is why every day you hear of people crossing from one political party to the other. People switch parties because their involvement in their former parties was at a superficial level, not ethical level – it had no depth of conviction
Akpabio, who is the Senate Minority Leader, alleged that some people wanted to use the President’s victory in the 2015 general elections to foment trouble in the country
Akpabio said the PDP caucus staged a walk-out during the confirmation of a former Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, and 17 others because they did not want to participate in illegality
Writing on his Tweeter handle, Akpabio said he was not arrested by the EFCC, but only went there to answer to allegations levelled against him
A former Commissioner for Information in the Akpabio administration, Aniekan Umanah, disclosed that information reaching him showed that the desperate people who are behind the anti-Akpabio and anti-Governor Emmanuel Udom project, are already spreading spurious allegations of unfathomable acquisitions while in office
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and his predecessor, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on Saturday paid a visit on former…
Akpabio stated this on Sunday during the state’s inter-denominational thanksgiving service and 2015 Democracy Day celebration, with the theme: Who is Like Unto Thee, O Lord?
It is also time for the today men, those taking over different offices, bearing in mind posterity and the transience of political offices, to set their sights on good governance and selfless service [or rejoice over the opportunity to enrich themselves]. Whatever way it goes, whatever has a beginning will always have an end. But that end doesn’t always have to be regrettable or viewed with disappointment. This is the case in Akwa Ibom State, where the outgoing governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has spent the last eight years in office building infrastructure and developing human capacity in different ways. Though opinions may differ on the performance of the outgoing government in the state, there can only be one conclusion; that Akpabio is leaving the state better than he met it in 2007 and that Akwa Ibom people do, indeed, have a reason to rejoice about the state in the areas of physical development, education, agriculture, fiscal discipline and infrastructure
Governor Godswill Akpabio who announced the donation Thursday during the official swearing-in ceremony of 2015 Batch `A’ Corps members at NYSC Permanent Orientation Camp, Ikot Itie Udung in Nsit Atai Local Government Area, said the money should be used to commence the laying of foundation and block work
Akpabio, who was received at the stadium by a mammoth crowd of workers > from all spectrums of the workforce in the state, commended Akwa Ibom State workers for supporting his administration and translating his vision into reality
This was how your aggrandisement initiated the problems of PDP. Your actions gave rise to the “New PDP”. You called the dissenting PDP governors “JUDAS” and tried to ridicule them. As election approached, you misled the President to think that his success depended solely on PDP governors. So, strong PDP leaders were isolated and made inconsequential. You destroyed PDP just like you already did back home. The result is the humiliation of the 22 PDP governorship aspirants in Akwa Ibom State who scored no votes in your orchestrated primaries
The Co-ordinator of Women’s Pro-Climate Federation for Buhari + Osinbajo Presidency 2015, Ekaette Enitan Sanusi, who made the allegation, declared that the election in the oil-bearing state “is a shame”
The apex court’s panel of five judges, led by Justice John Fabiyi, reserved judgment after hearing the submissions of counsel to the parties in the suit who adopted their various processes
In a statement by his Commissioner for Information and Communications, Aniekan Umanah, the governor prayed that “God will grant repose to the souls of the departed triumvirate in the journalism sector, Pastor Tunde Oluwanike of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Ibadan, Adolphus Okonkwo of the Voice of Nigeria and Kafayat Odunsi of the Nigeria Television Authority
Alhassan observed that available and verifiable facts singled out Chief Akpabio as a pride of Africa, worthy of emulation
This decision was reached after an enlarged meeting of the senatorial district convened by the Itai Afe Annang, Okuku Pius Affiong Eside, and chaired by the Chairman of the Senatorial District, Hon. Imo
Ibokette, at the Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area hall