AKWA IBOM INTEGRITY ALLIANCE

PRESS RELEASE

In the last couple of days, the media space has been inundated with interviews, public declarations and press releases(albeit poorly scripted), by Mr. Ephraim Inyangeyen and his cronies, alleging among other things plots to have him arrested by the law enforcement agents and also raining abuses on our grand patron, His Excellency Mr Udom Emmanuel, as the architect of the political misfortunes of his political party, the YPP.

At the risk of conferring significance to the series of diatribes emanating from the sacked former State Executive Council member, Inyangeyen, we believe as watchdogs of the society, we owe right-thinking members of the public the responsibility to properly inform them.

In as much as everything untoward is expected from Mr Ephraim Inyang-eyen, we thought that he would have at least been humbly reasonable to slow down his unreasonable onslaught on his benefactor, His Excellency, Mr Udom Emmanuel whom God used to give a fresh life and attain unprecedented unarguably wealth status and relevance in the society. Today, by his headless insult to the same Udom Emmanuel that God used to reverse his irreversibly bent life, Mr Inyangeyen has not disappointed the protagonists of his dark destiny.


We are shocked to observe the series of attacks on Governor Udom Emmanuel linking the governor to the self-inflicted woes of Senator Bassey Albert, a man convicted by the court for money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption in a protracted case instituted by the federal government through its anti graft agency, the EFCC. Whether it is by ignorance or outright hatred for Governor Udom Emmanuel, it is shameful for Ephraim to link the Governor to Bassey Albert's ordeal. The senator has only reaped what he sowed. That is exactly what he bargained for when he immersed himself in the ocean of corruption. That Ephraim would be the numero uno in lamenting the conviction of the convicted Senator, simply fulfill the age long axiom, “show me your friend and I tell you who you are”. Today nobody is bothered to ask if the 3billion naira contract to Jide Omokore, for which Bassey Albert received 204million naira as kickback, was actually executed or if the embezzled money could have helped offset some of the backlogs of gratuities and pension arrears that the past administration left behind for Mr Udom Emmanuel in 2015.

We are aware of the fact that Mr. Ephraim Inyang is seeking public sympathy from the people of Eket senatorial district ahead of his 2023 failed Senate aspiration. It is rather unfortunate that instead of working tirelessly to redeem the battered reputation of their principal, by genuinely apologizing to Akwa Ibom people for his misdeeds in public office, he and his cohorts have chosen mudslinging and blackmailing as a tool to curry public sympathy.

At this point, one is force to ask, was Ephraim Inyang praying for a time like this so he can capitalize on Bassey Albert’s conviction as a political capital? His crocodile tears notwithstanding, everyone remembers Ephraim as a man without conscience, who usually acted lawlessly as a public officer, going outside official briefs to pull down houses, insulting communities to the utter embarrassment of government that managed him.

Truth be told, the arrest of Ephraim Inyang will be of no economic or political benefits to anyone and will not stop the enthronement of the divine successor to Mr. Udom Emmanuel, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno as the next Governor of Akwa Ibom State who is generally accepted by Akwa Ibom people.

The unfounded allegation of an unexisting plot to arrest Mr Inyangeyen only exists as a figment of the imagination of the man with the last kicks of a drowning horse Senatorial ambition. No one needs to witch-hunt Ephraim Inyang. As far as we are concerned, Ephraim Inyang's tambling, ranting, and calling the Governor names in his self-inflicted wounds of dishonor, are signals of reek of failure and fear of the unknown.

Whatever issues Ephraim Inyang has with the police or any other security agency is his cup of tea and, when that happens, he should have none but himself alone to blame.

We cease this opportunity therefore to advise him to desist from further unwarranted attacks on the governor.
If by chance Ephraim Inyangeyen has issues to settle with the law court, the police and other law enforcement agencies, let him leave Mr Udom Emmanuel out of it. He who has ants in his firewood can only be inviting lizards to a feast.



BARR STEVE ABIA
CHAIRMAN
03/12/22

If EFCC doesn't arrest governor udom emmanuel after elections then the agency should be scrapped. Same EFCC came to investigate former governor akpabio but the stooge incumbent governor kick against it and obtain fraudulent injunction to stop the move just to cover upfor their loots. Thanks to governor wike who just reveal how much governor udom and his cronies looted recently.