Here’s the article that caused Udom’s media aide, Ekerete Udoh to threaten a journalist with THISDAY newspaper

Mr. Ekerete Udoh

By Nse Peter

Mr. Nseobong Okon-Ekong who works in Lagos with Thisday newspaper posted this, Sunday, on his Facebook page: “Just got a call from Ekerete Udoh, one of the media aides to Akwa Ibom State governor-elect Udom Emmanuel threatening to deal with me (for an article published in THISDAY) yesterday May 9. He said I should be ready for a fight. He called with this number- 08171012583.”

When Think Akwa Ibom! contacted Nseobong Okon-Ekong, he said the article in question was published “under a column written by a colleague of mine. It did not carry my name neither was Ekerete mentioned in the article. He claims that every description there points to him. And that since I am an Akwa Ibomite I must be the one who wrote it.” Read the said article after the cut.

Udom Emmanuel Speaking?

When the history of the 2015 elections is written, the pages will be filled with all kinds of characters who emerged suddenly to claim expertise in one form of political strategy or another. From the government at the centre down to the various states, the landscape was filled with these types who play to the gallery, sometimes exposing their inadequacies and generating laughter from their action. In Akwa Ibom State, there is a personality whose sorry state of living forced him to return from the United States. Having made an acquaintance of the media by writing incredible stories touching on matters of the heart, he wormed his way into various newsrooms; starting with a defunct newspaper owned by a late Nigerian politician whose popular mandate was annulled. This gentleman stole out of the country under suspicious circumstance and as it is often the case, he lived in hiding and could engage in menial jobs after his visa expired. Years later, he managed to get a green card, yet survival was tough. Even his bid to start a publication in the US suffered a set-back.
As the saying goes, what he was looking for in Sokoto was all in the while in his sokoto. Luck smiled on him when, Princess, one of his Baby Mama got a job as one of the protocol officers to the wife of the Akwa State Governor Godswill Akpabio. No minding that our man had never supported her with the upkeep of their son (one of the four children she has for four different men), she went on bended knees to beg the governor to give him a job. An opportunity with the 2015 gubernatorial campaign in Akwa Ibom, our man put in charge of communications for Akwa Ibom governor-elect Udom Emmanuel; ahead of better qualified candidates because he returned from America with a truck load of lies and assumed importance including a claim that he a key figure in the Obama/Biden campaign (of course, it is a lie). This character has caused a lot of disquiet in the Udom Emmanuel caucus largely owing to his ambition to become of member of the state executive council. Our man has become so garrulous that it is difficult to know when Udom is speaking or when it is his supposed mouthpiece wagging his tail.

Culled from THISDAY newspaper