Senator-elect for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District (Akwa Ibom North-West), Dr. Chris Ekpenyong, has warned former governor Godswill Akpabio, to stop the campaign of blackmail and intimidation against the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.

It was bound to happen that Senator Godswill Akpbabio and Rt. Hon. Chibuke Amaechi would become friends again. After all, some observe that they have nothing to fight for again. That is after the recent poor outings by their camps in Akwa Ibom and Rivers States.

The Senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district and former governor of Akwa Ibom state, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said he has no regrets for dumping his former party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and joining the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The seven-man Legal team of the senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district, Senator Godswill Akpabio yesterday resumed the process of inspection of election materials at the headquarters of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Udo Udoma Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state.

A golden fish they say has no hiding place.For former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, this is indeed true in every sense.   

UYO—Akwa Ibom State Government has taken the administration of former governor, Godswill Akpabio to the cleaners over the lackluster approach to the development of the Ibom Deep Seaport, saying Akpabio only acquired land and never carried out any substantial development of the multi-billion dollars project in Mbo Local  Council of the state.

…decries ‘arrest’ of judgment on suit seeking to declare their seats vacant By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Thursday, accused the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, and 52 other lawmakers of engaging in misconduct by arresting judgment on a suit […]

UYO—Former Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government, Sir Etekamba Umoren, has expressed optimism that Senator Godswill Akpabio will reclaim the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial seat at the tribunal.

Former Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government, Sir Etekamba Umoren, has expressed optimism that Senator Godswill Akpabio would reclaim the Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial seat at the tribunal.

The battle for Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial seat has shifted to the tribunal, as Senator Godswill Akpabio has filed a petition in Uyo, the state capital, challenging the emergence of Dr. Chris Ekpeyong of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as winner of the February 23 polls.

FORMER Senate Minority leader and member representing Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial district, Senator Godswill Akpabio has approached Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo, the state capital to kick-start the legal processes to challenge the senatorial result.

The former governor of Alwa Ibom  on Saturday night stormed Essien Udim Local Government Area collation centre.

Former Senate Minority Leader, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, withdrew the suit he filed to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  from issuing Certificate of Return to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chris Ekpenyong, who defeated him in the February 23 Senatorial election.

Dr. Chris Ekpenyong served as deputy governor of Akwa Ibom State in the period between 1999 and 2005. He had since his exit from office laid low albeit politically. That was until late last year when he emerged as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP for the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District. Dr. Ekpenyong proceeded to win the election in which he was pitched against the immediate former governor of the state and immediate past Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio. He speaks on the feat and expectations of the PDP ahead of this weekend’s polls.

LAST  Saturday’s Presidential/ National Assembly polls did not  happen in the six states of the South-South geo-political zone without the flattening of a number of political strongholds and reinforcement of old and new opinionated avatars.