A social media rumor that the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Éno, and the Akwa Ibom State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party secretly celebrated Atiku Abubakar, the party's presidential candidate in the election on February 25, for revealing President Bola Tinubu's allegedly fake certificate, was refuted. Read Full Article..
The party begged well-intentioned Nigerians to reject this "ill-intentioned attempt" to get the governor and the party involved in a judicial battle.
'Re- Governor Umo Éno, Akwa Ibom PDP welcome Atiku's efforts for exposing Tinubu's alleged phony certificate,' said a statement released by the party's publicity secretary on Wednesday.
"Earlier today, an obviously fake news story that was spreading on social media claimed that our party and Pastor Umo Eno, the governor of Akwa Ibom State and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, were secretly celebrating Alhaji Atiku Abubakar's efforts in exposing President Tinubu's alleged fake certificate.
“We urge well-meaning Nigerians to ignore the ill-intentioned attempt to drag the governor of Akwa Ibom State and the state chapter of our great party, the PDP, into a matter that is undergoing the processes of law,” the statement read in part.
It, therefore, stated as follows: “That the matter which is the subject of the fake news is in court and therefore sub judice. By that very fact, neither the governor nor the Peoples Democratic Party at the state level is competent to comment on it.
“That the governor, Pastor Umo Eno as a law-abiding citizen, who believes in the supremacy of the law, has tremendous respect for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Bola Tinubu, the PDP whose platform Pastor Umo Eno was elected as governor and the presidential candidate of the party, His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.”
It stated further, “That the governor of Akwa Ibom State is not a party on record in the suit referred to in this risible rumour and therefore can only await the judgment of the court, and he will join in the usual respectful and deferential chorus of ‘As the court pleases’!!.”
#Bendelnews