Showing posts with label Ethnic tension in Akwa Ibom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethnic tension in Akwa Ibom. Show all posts

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Okorie says ‘Annang, not part of Akpabio’s fight against Ibibio’

Gov. Godswill Akpabio

The All Progressives Congress candidate for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District election in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Inibehe Okorie has said that the Annang ethnic group which he belongs to is not a part of ‘Akpabio’s fight against the Ibibio’.

Monday, 22 September 2014

Outrageous! Akpabio calls Attah ‘local champion’, asks youths to rebel against elders (audio attached to the story)

 
 
File photo: Gov. Godswill Akpabio

 
(N/B: scroll down to listen to the audio of Gov. Akpabio's speech at the end of the story.)
 
 

By Nse Peter
 
Governor Godswill Akpabio during an inter-denominational church service on Sunday, at Ibom Hall ground, Uyo, to mark the 27th anniversary of the creation of Akwa Ibom State, threw modesty to the winds and outrageously asked youths in the state to rise up against political elders as the state prepares for 2015 governorship election.