Former federal minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development,
Chief Nduese Essien, former chairman, Hospital Management Board, Akwa Ibom
State, Dr. Val Attah and Senator Effiong Bob were among notable Peoples
Democratic Party members that were also not present at the event.
Governor Emmanuel flew in from Abuja to Uyo, the capital of
Akwa Ibom State, after spending two days in the Federal Capital Territory since
the election tribunal annulled the April 11, 2015 election in 18 out of 31
local government areas in the state.
The governor was received at the Akwa Ibom International Airport,
Uyo, by a crowd of people said to have been rented by the state government for
a fee of N2, 500 each, and from there driven in a long convoy to Wellington
Bassey Way where the reception took place.
Top politicians who attended the reception were mostly
members of the Akwa Ibom State Executive Council, besides former military
governor of the State, Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga and Senator Anietie Okon.
Think Akwa Ibom! gathered that Bassey Dan-Abia was in Uyo on
Friday but chose not to attend the reception for obvious reason that he does
not want to be seen as backing Emmanuel, a PDP candidate, against APC which is
the party of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The NDDC MD was at Afaha Akpan Ekpo, Etinan Local Government
Area, on that same Friday to attend the burial ceremony of late Deacon Jessie
Usen, the mother Mr. Anietie Usen who is a director in NDDC. He is said to have
travelled to Eket, immediately after the burial ceremony.
Think Akwa Ibom! had exclusively reported about three weeks
ago Bassey Dan-Abia’s comment during
stakeholders’ meeting in his Esit-Eket community that he was going to
back APC if there is a re-run of the Akwa Ibom governorship election, so as to
protect his job in NDDC.
Eket, Ibeno and Onna, where Dan-Abia is believed to have considerable
political influence, are among the local government areas the election tribunal
ordered for a re-run.
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