Today is Odudu Ukpanah’s birthday, but it just too difficult to wish him a happy birthday

How can we say happy birthday to a man whose father was brutally killed and he himself thrown into detention on false charges that it was him who killed his father? Odudu Ukpanah, today is your birthday. But it is difficult for us in Think Akwa Ibom! to say happy birthday to you when we truly know that you are not a happy man being incarcerated inside Gov Godswill Akpabio’s gulag. In place of a birthday wish, our prayer is that this little dictator of Akwa Ibom State should set you free immediately. Be strong Odudu, for God and the people are with you!  

Free Odudu Ukpanah, let him rejoin his family to mourn their father, lawyer writes Akwa Ibom Attorney General, Uwemedimo Nwoko

Engr. Albert Ukpanah, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party from Ukanafun Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, was brutally gunned down in his home at Abak. The official police report said the murder was ‘politically motivated’. But in a rather sad and terrible twist, late Albert Ukpanah’s only son, Odudu was arrested, detained and arraigned for the assassination of his own father, even when he (Odudu) isn’t a politician! He has remained in detention without trial for several months now. Many people within and outside Akwa Ibom State feel Odudu is innocent, and have been calling for his release, the latest being this open letter to the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Uwemedimo Nwoko (pictured above). The letter, written by a Lagos-based lawyer, Mr. Fidel Sylvanus Albert, is so straightforward, logical, reasonable and touching. Read the letter after the cut…….

Akpabio accuses human rights activists of politicising Odudu Ukpanah’s trial

Governor Akpabio

Akwa Ibom Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has condemned growing 168 suspected murder cases reported in the state last year, lamenting that children killed their parents and husbands murdered their wives and vice versa.

‘Calling Akpabio names will not bring justice to Ukpanah’s family’ - Gov. Akpabio’s media assistant, Anietie Ekong

Gov. Godswill Akpabio

By Nse Peter

Governor Godswill Akpabio’s Special Assistant on Media, Anietie Ekong has described as ‘blatant lie’, the allegation that the governor ordered the detention of Odudu Ukpanah, the son of the slain outspoken chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State, Albert Ukpanah.

Gov. Akpabio's relatives are threatening late Albert Ukpanah's daughters - Human Rights activist, Inibehe Effiong

Mr. Inibehe Effiong, a human rights activist from Akwa Ibom State and Convener of the Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (COHRD) in Nigeria, explains to NSE PETER, the editor of Think Akwa Ibom! why Nigerians must rise up and put pressure on Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, for Odudu Ukpanah, the son of the slain PDP chieftain, Albert Ukpanah, to be released from Prison.

Lawyers ask Akpabio to release Odudu Ukpanah

Mr. Odudu Ukpanah

By Nse Peter

Lawyers in Nigeria, under the aegis of Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL), have asked the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio to release Odudu Ukpanah, the only son of Albert Ukpanah, a PDP chieftain who was shot dead at his home in Abak, March this year. 

Christmas: The Akpabios step out in colours, smiles and laughter, while the Ukpanahs mourn

Gov. Akpabio with his family at the Akwa Ibom Christmas Carol Night in Uyo

By Nse Peter

Governor Godswill Akpabio while declaring open the 7^th edition of the Akwa Ibom State Christmas Carol Night last Saturday, proclaimed to the large congregation at the new Akwa Ibom International Stadium, “As you join the 9999 choir to sing praises to God tonight, all your problems will go away”. And the people responded with a loud ‘amen!’

How they killed our dad - Ukpanah, and what happened the day Gov. Akpabio paid condolence visit to our family – Uduak Ukpanah

Albert Ukpanah, a chieftain of PDP, was brutally gunned down on 12 March, 2014 in his home in Abak, Akwa Ibom State, and his only son, Odudu Ukpanah arrested and charged to court for ‘assassinating’ his father, even when the police report says that Ukpanah’s assassination was politically motivated. Mr. Odudu Ukpanah, a UK-trained petroleum management expert, has so far spent seven months in prison custody. In this interview with NSE PETER, the editor of Think Akwa Ibom!, Uduak Ukpanah (pictured above), a Lagos-based lawyer and the elder sister to Odudu, says the family won’t give up  fighting for the unconditional release of Odudu.

A grieving family in Akwa Ibom needs you to reach out to Gov. Akpabio on their behalf

Mr. Odudu Ukpanah

Please if you are reading this, it means you are in a good position to help.

#ReleaseOduduUkpanah Campaign gathers momentum, becomes political issue against PDP in A’ Ibom

Mr. Odudu Ukpanah ... His continuous detention may hurt PDP in Akwa Ibom State

By Nse Peter

These are indeed troubling times for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Akwa Ibom State. Torn apart by its controversial governorship primary, PDP in Akwa Ibom State has just been hit by a restraining court order which makes it illegal for the former Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government and Governor Godswill Akpabio’s protégé, Mr. Udom Emmanuel to parade himself as PDP governorship candidate in the State.