RE- PRINCE AKPABIO AGAIN

Our attention has been drawn to yet another onslaught in the orchestrated
and deliberate smear campaign of calumny mounted by some compromised
sections of the junk media with the sole objective of blackmailing members
of The Akpabio family, or anyone for that matter that is associated with the
Akpabio's.

This latest effort is on the front and back page of another new arrival on
the ever increasing newspaper stands in Akwa Ibom state that goes by the
name Global Post in its Vol. 2 No. 1,January 27, 2014, edition.
The said cover story reads; "Prince Akpabio again! ...fights over ex-lover."

Curiously, on the backpage is another piece by one Gideon Ekere, titled,
"The evil that a woman does...", all in a lame, confused and barely coherent
attempt to vilify the First Lady, Her Excellency, Mrs Ekaette Unoma Akpabio.
It needs also be observed that, the same paper devotes a full page editorial
on Page 4, in a struggle to demean the recent Award as Best Governor
since the creation of Akwa Ibom State conferred on the governor, H. E.
Chief Dr. Godswill Obot Akpabio, CON, by the League of Newspaper
Publishers in the State, to which Global Post, we understand is neither a
member nor affiliated.
To every discerning mind, to devote nearly three pages in a 16 paged
newspaper to cast slur and use unprintable gutter language on a particular
subject, is in itself an indictment on the intent and flawed goal of the
medium.

It bears repeating here that the said story on Prince Ukpng Akpabio fighting
over an ex lover is false, fictitious, unfounded and riddled with bad faith. It
is even mors shameful that persons who are half baked and lack good
command of English language are given such prominence to write a
column on backpage of a newspaper wherein they assault us with wrong
grammar and scare people from encouraging readership of newspapers. It
is a shock that the jaded attempt to ridicule the First Lady was as
uncordinated, uninteresting and gibberish only fit for the thrash can. No self
respecting paper with professional hands will sanction such mediocre script,
not to talk of publish it at all.

Ordinarily, we would have chosen to ignore the rubbish by Global Post, its
authours and sponsors, and not dignify them with a comment, but for the
fact that, the unsuspecting public may be misled and hoodwinked into
entertaining their evil and concocted tales as truth. We als put on record
that, whereas the explosion of Newspaper outfits in the State may represent
a positive indication that, the Akpabio led administration has created a
conducive and Press friendly environment for them to thrive, many of the
nearly 100 newspapers floated within this period are driven by ulterior and
mercantilist political motives, even as they are peopled by charlatans,
quacks, professional blackmailers who do the bidding of their pay masters.
This is indeed a sad development which the Nigeria Union of Journalist will
do well to arrest, so as to restore the vanishing integrity of their noble
profession.

While we call on the public to ignore and discountenance the false reportage
on Prince Ukpong Akpabio by Global Post as the said story exists only in
the imagination of those who contrived it, we hereby charge Global Post to
speedily tender aretraction of the story and if they be professionals, publish
this rejoinder, according it as much prominence as the did with the fake
incidents. We also alert the people to the common trend that newspapers
springing up tend to believe that, using the Akpabio family as a punching
bag for yellow journalism will translate to higher sales and popularity for
their paper. Hence, all manner of stories and fictions emerge. The people
should be wary of these hounds who claim to be journalists.

Signed
Anietie Uwakmfon. Otobong Imaikop for Concerned Friends of Prince
Akpabio