The Akwa Ibom Governor, Godswill Akpabio has described statements credited to Senator Aloysius Etok of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District where he made “spurious allegations that the State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio was after his life,” as ‘unfortunate.’
In a press statement sent by the State commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, Akpabio dismissed the allegations as “paranoid, deceitful, baseless and mere hallucinations that serves no purpose whatsoever.”
Umanah described Etok’s allegation of mobilizing Local Government Chairmen and members of the State House of Assembly against Sen. Etok as a figment of the imagination of the authors of such demented scripts, because Governor Akpabio was not in the country at the time the alleged actions were taken neither was he party to those as he was attending the Commonwealth Bar. Association Conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
According to the statement by Mr. Umanah, “His Excellency, Governor Akpabio is a God fearing and peace loving man, and has never and will never contemplate evil against anyone let alone, his brother and friend, Senator Aloysius Etok”.
Umanah who stated that Governor Akpabio has no problem with Senator Etok disclosed that the two are “enjoying very robust relationship” and are constantly in touch with each other on matters of concern.
Akpabio also denied “resurrecting a hit squad to fight Sen. Etok” adding that he has no hit squad and has never been after the life of any citizen of the state.
He further stressed that Chief Akpabio is only an aspirant to the Senate in 2015 and therefore cannot disrespect the office of a Senator and Etok has every right as guaranteed by the constitution to re-contest election to the senate in 2015 if he so wishes.
The comissioner cautioned those bent on “tarnishing the hard earned image of the Governor to desist from such acts and advised politicians from the state not to jump into the fray of the Nigerian Governors forum politics, stressing that NGF as a body will settle her issues.”
