Our attention has been drawn to a malicious story, craftily written and currently circulating on social media, some sympathetic online platforms and email newsgroups that have affiliation to Akwa Ibom state, purporting to be a detailed report of a visit by the Akwa Ibom state Governor, His Excellency, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, to former Governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at his Lagos residence on Bourdillon street, Ikoyi.
Manufacturers of the tale sought to use it to present Gov. Emmanuel as desperately seeking the face of Tinubu and promising to mortgage the state as reward for his assistance in swaying the Supreme Court to his favour.
The ‘story’ was also circulated under the aegis of www.apcnewsalert.com and qualifies for a Pulitzer Award in fiction writing. We so recommend it for the award.
Ordinarily, we would not have bothered to dissipate energy over such salacious tales by agents and assigns of APC, which have clearly shown aimless desperation, including the manufacturing and trading on lies, in the quest to get through the back door, an office that the generality of Akwa Ibom people had voted Gov. Udom into, and for which they are also happy and thankful to God.
Without pretence, the ‘story’ bears all the hallmarks of APC, which had elevated lies to an art form in its quest for power in Akwa Ibom State
Such policy is now fully employed in Akwa Ibom state where lies had been regularly produced like pure water, in the quest to distract Gov. Emmanuel and also cause disaffection among the people.
While we urge the teeming supporters of Gov. Emmanuel and indeed, the entire Akwa Ibom people, at home and in the Diaspora to ignore the tale by moonlight for all its incongruencies and fallacies, which begins with the byline of Kay Lord, a name that is obviously an impersonation.
The ‘story’ is simply what it is –a tale manufactured by the several internet rodents, hired by Akwa Ibom state chapter of APC to daily manufacture and spread lies aimed at causing disaffection between Akwa Ibomites and their governor.
For emphasis, Gov. Emmanuel is not perturbed by such tales spread over the internet. Gov. Emmanuel is focused on delivering dividends to the electorate in Akwa Ibom. APC and those hired to manufacture and spread such lies, ought to know by now that the bus left the station long ago and those who prefer to stay back at the station, obviously have other intentions.
Such salacious tales will not achieve the effect for which it was intended as the electorates in Akwa Ibom already know who their leaders are. Such leaders are not those who had spent upward of 16 unbroken years in the civil service of the state and emerged from it as super rich. Such situations should rather call for sober reflection on the meaning of service to the people, not further desperation to emasculate state resources for personal glory.
We urge the public to ignore the tale and remain committed to the ideals of qualitative leadership which Gov. Emmanuel is focused on delivering to Akwa Ibom. Akwa Ibom is on the move and its forward ever backward never.
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