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<\/p>\nThe party said the Governor Udom Emmanuel\u2019s administration was behind the plot.<\/p>\n
A statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Nkereuwem Enyongekere, claimed that there have been a series of secret meetings by top officials at the Government House against Ekere.<\/p>\n
The party\u2019s spokesman alleged that the government had a four-pronged approach to discredit its governorship candidate.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe well-funded and desperate plot is to be carried out in the print and social media. The plot is four-pronged.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019One of the strategies is to deceive Akwa Ibom people that Obong Ekere has entered into a secret pact with Senator Godswill Akpabio to serve two terms in office as governor contrary to his promise.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo deceive Akwa Ibom people that 70 per cent of appointments in Obong Ekere\u2019s government will be done by Senator Akpabio.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo deceive Akwa Ibom people that the biggest contracts in Obong Ekere\u2019s government will be reserved for Igbo businessmen.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo deceive Akwa Ibom people that Obong Ekere will soon put up NDDC billboards in Akwa Ibom, claiming Akwa Ibom State Government projects.\u201d<\/p>\n
The APC urged the public to discountenance such false publications, which, it said are planned to hit the print and social media in the state from Tuesday, October 9, 2018<\/p>\n
Reacting, Udom\u2019s spokesman, Emmanuel, Ekerete Udoh, dismissed the claim.<\/p>\n
Udoh said: \u201cThis is another desperate attempt by APC in Akwa Ibom State to cover their nefarious activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians and Akwa Ibomites are living witnesses to the perpetual mudsling that these leftists have hauled at the government and people of Akwa Ibom State in the last three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the government of Akwa Ibom State is more focused on sustainable development and not interested in engaging in a mudsling game.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State has raised the alarm over a smear campaign against its governorship candidate, Nsima Ekere. The party said the Governor Udom Emmanuel\u2019s administration was behind the plot. A statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Nkereuwem Enyongekere, claimed that there have been a series of secret meetings by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}