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Udoedehe's campaign office launch: Uyo
people undaunted by media report
-Sam Effanga
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The Commissioner for Science and
Technology, Hon. Samuel Effanga, has stressed that
politicians in Uyo Local Government Area will remain
undaunted and unshuffled in their determination to
re-enthrone Governor Akpabio as governor-elect in 2011,
despite flattering media reports of other aspirants'
activities within the domain.
In a telephone interaction with Insight Newspaper's
reporter, Hon. Effanga wondered why the launching of the
campaign of Senator Akpanudoedehe, an event which drew crowd
from other 30 local government areas of the state should be
misconstrued to reflect the stands of the politically
conscious Uyo indigenes.
According to Hon. Effanga, “what you, the press describe as
mammoth crowd from Uyo was a story blown out of proportion,
to deliberately create panic in the minds of Uyo people. In
Uyo here, if you take a roll-call of political stakeholders,
you will discover that the overwhelming majority are on the
side of Gov. Akpabio.
“In the grassroots, the overwhelming majority are on the
side of Governor Akpabio. So, its no call for concern, it
does not in any way shake the system or call for concern, or
cause panic, we dey kampe”.
While expressing optimism that the obstruction of the
traffic flow along the major street where the campaign
office launch was held was not deliberate, Hon. Effanga
argued. “What you saw was more of a situation where people
that would have passed to their businesses were obstructed
by the slow movement of the convoy that was heading to the
launching venue and those people who were meandering their
way through may have been mistaken as crowd of the aspirant.
Even church rallies do obstruct people and motorists' pace
of movement”.
The Commissioner frowned at the situation where fragment of
supporters drawn from all nooks and crannies of Akwa Ibom
State should be used as a yardstick for adjudging or
otherwise of an aspirant within the Uyo vicinity. He
enthused that “overwhelming majority of Uyo Local government
politicians have read between the lines, they know that its
futility to contest for a sit that is not vacant, they know
that the dismal number of gubernatorial aspirants for the
Hilltop Mansion in 2011 show the wide acceptability of the
present governor and cannot therefore be misled. Hon.
Effanga further stated that “if rallies were to have begun
and Gov. Akpabio was to walk along the road, the whole city
would grow agog with crowd that we will be managing to
control, yes that is how to compare”, he added.
He however advice the press not to be used as channel
through which fictitious stories aimed at misinforming and
misleading the public are -published.
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