Akpabio is not a killer, Akwa Ibom elder

By Henry Umoru

Chief Nse Ntuen, an Akwa Ibom elder and erstwhile subordinate of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly who has known Senator  Godswill Akpabio for implicit 50 years, has condemned successful precise beardown presumption the caller question of unfounded allegations and tirade of maltreatment directed astatine the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

The elder, who unequivocally dismissed the allegations,  said that Akpabio is not a killer.

In a connection connected Sunday, Chief Ntuen, the Honorary Adviser to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Pastor Umo Eno, described the claims circulated by Akpabio’s sister-in-law, Mrs Patience Ibanga Akpabio, arsenic baseless, malicious, and inconsistent with some the quality and nationalist grounds of Senator Godswill Akpabio.

Ntuen, a erstwhile Chairman of Essien Udim Local Government Area from which Akpabio hails, noted that, “the allegations, which person nary ground successful information oregon communal sense, are steeped successful idiosyncratic bitterness and deliberate mischief alternatively than successful immoderate verifiable information oregon credible grievance.”

Ntuen, who noted that specified behaviour demeans nationalist sermon and disrespects the values of decency for which Akwa Ibom radical are known, said, ” we indispensable ne'er let a civilization of reckless falsehood to regenerate dialog and truth. These claims are not simply offensive; they correspond a conscious effort to erode the dignity of honorable enactment and to sow unnecessary discord among a radical agreed by shared past and respect.”

He aligned himself with the caller solution of the Greater Akpabio family, which unanimously expressed assurance successful the Senate President and reaffirmed the family’s unbroken unity.

Ntuen, who added that the connection by the family, being the astir authoritative dependable connected home matters of this nature, has settled the contented firmly and should beryllium respected arsenic such, said, “These spurious attacks are not lone affronts to Senator Akpabio’s idiosyncratic but besides to the corporate estimation of Essien Udim and, by extension, Akwa Ibom State.

“At a clip erstwhile the Senate President is afloat engaged with His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, successful charting legislative frameworks for economical betterment and nationalist renewal, it is disappointing that anyone would take to distract nationalist attraction with malicious fabrication and self-aggrandisement.

“The nationalist is truthful advised to disregard specified falsehoods, which service nary intent different than to inflame passions and divert absorption from meaningful governance.”

Ntuen, who  lauded Senator Akpabio’s dignified soundlessness and self-restraint successful the look of provocation, describing it arsenic grounds of some idiosyncratic spot and governmental maturity, observed that successful an property wherever instant absorption often replaces reflection, the Senate President has shown that quiescent absorption remains the highest signifier of leadership.

He added, “Leadership is not theatre; it is service. Senator Akpabio’s calm disposition and tireless enactment astatine the helm of the 10th Senate person continued to nutrient tangible results for Nigeria. His committedness to legislative ratio and intergovernmental harmony demonstrates that the surest effect to malice is progress.”

Ntuen, who noted that nationalist bureau carries a ineffable work and that those who person been privileged to service indispensable defender the dignity of governance from reckless commentary,  urged each citizens, particularly those successful nationalist life, to beryllium mindful of their words and the illustration they acceptable for younger generations.

He said, “When we trim superior nationalist conversations to gossip and innuendo, we weaken the precise cloth of democracy.

“What Nigeria needs contiguous are builders and not destroyers; thinkers and not rumour peddlers. Senator Akpabio has chosen to beryllium a builder, and past volition vindicate that choice.”

Ntuen, a erstwhile ALGON president successful Akwa Ibom State, appealed for restraint and unity among Akwa Ibom citizens, emphasising that idiosyncratic grievances should ne'er beryllium allowed to unreality corporate progress.

He reaffirmed his loyalty to Governor Umo Eno’s imaginativeness of bid and inclusive governance and his continued enactment for Senator Akpabio arsenic a lad of Akwa Ibom, who represents the authorities with favoritism astatine the nationalist lev...