A’Ibom House of Assembly dissolves LG councils

By Etim Ekpimah

The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has dissolved the 31 local government councils in the state even as it directed the council chairmen to handover all government properties to their councils’ Heads of Service by July 10.

A’Ibom Assembly gets principal officers

By Etim Ekpimah

The Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, Mr. Aniekan Uko, has announced the names of the principal officers for the state’s sixth Assembly.

Akpabio’s gang up against Onofiok Luke: five things you need to know

Akpabio .... Will he ever forgive Onofiok Luke?

By Nse Peter

Godswill Akpabio does not forgive. No, he doesn’t.

For the immediate past governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, politics is war by another name. Once your disagreement with Akpabio is such that it affects his political interest, you just need to know that you’ve made yourself Akpabio’s eternal enemy.

Opinion: The Intrigues That Produced Aniekan Uko as Speaker/ By Essien Ndueso

Aniekan Uko

By Essien Ndueso

I was in the house of Assembly when the sixth Assembly converged and I witnessed the emergence of Hon Aniekan Uko as the Speaker of the Sixth Assembly. There was no counter vote by the members except for the position of Deputy Speaker where the contest was between Hon Felicia Bassey of Okobo and Hon Effiong Asuquo of Oron. 

Aniekan Uko emerges speaker A'Ibom House of Assembly

In a surprise change of political tide, Monday, Mr. AniekanUko (pictured above), the new member, representing Ibesikpo-Asutan State Constituency, was elected speaker in the inaugurated Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. The two previous contenders to the office of the speaker, Mr. Onofiok Luke (Nsit Ubium) and Mr. Ime Okon (Ibiono Ibom), both of them ranking lawmakers, lost out because of the overbearing political influence of the immediate past governor of the state, Chief Godswill Akpabio.