The chieftain, a long-standing political kingmaker, popularly called Mentor by Ini politicians, defected on Friday at a rally at Methodist School, Mbiabong Ikot Udofia, Ini, with thousands of supporters, including a serving local government supervisor, two chapter executive members, 56 ward executive members and six former councillors
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met with four governors from the South-South geo-political zone at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Sunday worshipped with Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom at Qua Iboe Church, Uyo, and urged the people to support the governor’s second term ambition.
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
Ekpotu made the call Wednesday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, after the State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, inaugurated a peace committee, tagged: “After Congress Unification Committee.”
The Akwa Ibom State Government has slashed the price of tickets to the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo to watch Nigeria against Libya this Saturday, an official said on Tuesday.
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom was on Sunday in Uyo affirmed by party faithful as the governorship candidate of Peoples’ Democratic Party for the 2019 elections
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom on Friday declared his intention to seek re-election, saying his current performance would return him to the Government House.
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has commended the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, for rising above the recent distractions created by certain aggrieved politicians while rallying his people for the job of developing the state.
The golden jubilee celebration was held at the church’s Lord’s Garden
The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Onofiok Luke, has alleged that the Presidency and the All Progressives Congress offered him N2 billion and the deputy governorship slot for him to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC.
The PDP in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Wednesday in Abuja called on Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to immediately order the EFCC to unfreeze the accounts
Ahead of the defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom has sacked two commissioners loyal to Akpabio.
The Deputy Governor said this in a statement on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Ekikere Umoh, in reaction to a post by @APC Newspaper on Twitter on Sunday
According to tweets on the Twitter handle of the two publications, the Deputy Governor will be dumping his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the All Progressives Congress
The Akwa Ibom state Commissioner of Works, Ephraim Inyangeyen, has assured that Governor Udom Emmanuel would ensure the completion of all ongoing projects before May 29, 2019.
The Special Assistant on Projects to the governor, Iqwat Umoren, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Uyo on Wednesday.
The Spokesperson for the Forum, Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, said after a one-day meeting that the demand was in the spirit and clamour for restructuring and in line with true federalism.
This was just as the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, and Fayose have called for virile and strong judicial arm for Nigeria’s democracy to grow and deliver on its mandate.
Emmanuel met with Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who is the chairman of the National Economic Council, where both discussed the implications of the new oil price and the way forward for Nigeria.