Sen. Ita Enang gambles with his re-election, declares support for Udom

Senator Ita Enang

By Nse Peter

Ita Solomon Enang, the Senator representing Uyo Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State has surprisingly declared his support for the 2015 governorship ambition of Gov. Godswill Akpabio’s protégé, Mr. Udom Emmanuel.

Umana faults PDP’s decision on zoning

Mr. Umana Okon Umana standing besides Atuekong Don Etiebet when the permanent member of PDP BOT was addressing the crowd that came to welcome him at the Akwa Ibom International Airport yesterday, Thursday, 30 Oct., 2014. (PHOTO: Think Akwa Ibom!)

By Kazeem Ibrahym, Uyo

One of the leading governorship aspirants in Akwa Ibom State, Obong Umana Umana, has faulted the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) National Working Committee’s (NWC’s) decision to zone the governorship ticket to Eket Senatorial District.

2015 governorship: Akpabio, other PDP governors may confront Jonathan

This news report published in The Nation newspaper of today, Saturday, 11 October, 2014 is revealing. It shows that PDP governors like Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State who is bent on imposing their stooges as their successors are indeed in trouble.

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2015 governorship poll: Oro give Udom Emmanuel red card

Mr. Udom Emmanuel, Akwa Ibom SSG

It seems the Akwa Ibom SSG, Mr. Udom Emmanuel may have met a brick wall and may be pretty difficult to secure the political support of the Oro ethnic group for his 2015 governorship ambition, going by the position of Oro as reported in the Sensor, a community newspaper in Akwa Ibom State.

And yet the question is, if Udom Emmanuel, as it is, can’t get the support of Oro, and that of the majority of Ibibio in both Eket and Uyo Senatorial Districts, including some parts of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District like Abak Five, Ini and Ikono local government areas, what magic will Governor Godswill Akpabio do to install him as the next governor of the state?

Time, only time, will tell.

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Sunny Ibanga reportedly warns: Don’t campaign in Ikot Ekpene if you are against Akpabio’s succession plan

Governor Godswill Akpabio

By Nse Peter

The Chapter chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area, Chief Sunny Ibanga has warned other politicians who are not in support of Akpabio’s succession plan for the 2015 governorship election in the state not to visit Ikot Ekpene for campaign, Peace Letters has reported.

2015 Akwa Ibom governorship: I don't believe in zoning - Larry Esin

Did Senator Effiong Bob really say this of Udom Emmanuel?

Senator Effiong Bob

By Nse Peter

A political associate of Effiong Bob has told Think Akwa Ibom! that the former senator believes  Governor Godswill Akpabio is using the current Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government (SSG), Mr. Udom Emmanuel as a ‘decoy to deceive the political elites’ in the state, ahead of the 2015 governorship election.

Ime Albert pushes governorship ambition, sets up campaign office

Chief Ime Albert Akpan's campaign office in Uyo

 

By Nse Peter

Chief Ime Albert Akpan seems to be quietly pushing on with his 2015 governorship ambition in Akwa Ibom State, even as his younger brother Obong Bassey Albert Akpan (OBA) is also making waves across the state with his own campaign to succeed Governor Godswill Akpabio.

Controversy as Senator opposed to Gov. Akpabio is barred from featuring on radio station – PREMIUM TIMES

By Ibanga Isine

Despite, the station owner’s claim, insiders said the station got a sudden instruction from officials of the Akwa Ibom state government urging it to block Senator Etok from speaking on the station

Senator Aloysius Etok

A senator representing Akwa Ibom North West in the Senate, Aloysius Etok, said Planet FM, a private radio station in Uyo, barred him from featuring on the station.

Mr. Etok told PREMIUM TIMES on Thursday that he was invited for a live interview on the station on January 1, but just as he made to enter the studio, the programme was aborted.

PDP elders in Akwa Ibom back Tukur, say ‘only party convention can oust him’

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, PDP National Chairman

Uyo Senatorial District Elders Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned attempts to remove the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, from office without recourse to due process, as provided for in the party constitution.

A’Ibom 2015 Governorship: “Oro interest will be better served by candidate from Uyo Senatorial District.” – Chief Victor Iyanam, ex-commissioner for Justice

Chief Victor Iyanam, former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Akwa Ibom State

Chief Victor Iyanam is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom State. He served as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of the state for two years under Governor Godswill Akpabio. In this interview with Kazeem Ibrahym of The Nations newspaper, he speaks on the politics of the state. Excerpts:

THE NATION: If you are to assess the government of Governor Godswill Akpabio in the last six and half years, what would you say?

IYANAM: I was part of the government for two years. From 2007 to June 2009 but if I am to assess the government, I will say the government started out on a very bright note. The governor was very enthusiastic and almost all the physical projects that are ongoing now were initiated in the first two years, most of which I participated in the drafting of the contract. Almost all the roads, the Tropicana, 20th anniversary hospital and so many of the roads in some of the local government areas. As it is now, since I left government, four and half years ago, some of the projects are yet to be completed.

ANOTHER SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST AKWA IBOM SSG

Mr. Umana Okon Umana, the Akwa Ibom SSG

The attention of Mr. Umana Okon Umana, Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government (SSG), has just been drawn to a false publication on the internet which claimed that the SSG desperately sought endorsement of his party to run for governor at the last stakeholders meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (Uyo Senatorial District) held on Sunday 28 April 2013 in Uyo, and that the SGG sponsored a story in a local newspaper ahead of the end of the meeting to the effect that he has been adopted as the sole candidate for the 2015 governorship election in the state. We reject as complete falsehood all the insinuations and claims of the said publication to the effect that the SSG wanted the meeting to adopt him as the sole candidate of the district for the 2015 election. What happened at the meeting, already clearly stated in a communiqué, will be summarized below. But first, let us look at the author of this false publication so that the public can then determine who to believe.

2015 Akwa Ibom Governorship Contest: Uyo Senatorial District Unites to Battle Eket

Mr. Umana Okon Umana 

By Henry Nkom

It was the gathering of who is who as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uyo Senatorial District met yesterday, Sunday, 28 April, 2013 and agreed that they have to close ranks and fight as one family to clinch the governorship position being hotly contested by Eket Senatorial District in 2015.