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’.
Chief Inibehe Okorie who apologised to the Ibibio people for whatever misgiving they may have had because of Governor Godswill Akpabio’s style of leadership, said on Monday during the APC campaign rally at Oruk Anam, “I want to tell my Ibibio brothers and sisters that it wasn’t the Annang that was fighting them, it was Akpabio and his family”.

Inibehe Okorie said Godswill Akpabio wasn’t a good Annang man.

He said, “If he (Akpabio) were to be a good Annang man, he wouldn’t have insulted and detained Dr. Ime Umanah. He wouldn’t have insulted Chief Don Etiebet. He wouldn’t have insulted Chief Donald Dick Etiebet, the former governor of old Cross River State.”

Chief Okorie called on Akwa Ibom people to reject Godswill Akpabio and the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in the State, Mr. Udom Emmanuel. “Akwa Ibom people can never accept to be governed by a man that was brought by Igbo woman, Unoma Akpabio,” he said, while asking the people to vote for APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari as their next president, Umana Okon Umana as governor, himself (Okorie) as the next senator for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, and APC candidates in other elections.

A former commissioner for works and an indigene of Oruk Anam, Dr. Udoma Bob Ekarika who spoke at the campaign rally also criticised Governor Godswill Akpabio for saying that his wife, Unoma ‘produced’ the PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Udom Emmanuel.

Udoma Bob Ekarika asked the crowd if they were going to allow the governor’s wife, Unoma Akpabio to ‘produce’ a governor for them, and the crowd chorused “no”.

A chieftain of APC, Dr. Ime Umanah who spoke at the rally said “Akpabio will go to jail, not senate”.