Eko Hot Blog reports that Akwa Ibom State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has debunked a claim on social media that the party state governor, Umo Éno, were secretly celebrating the efforts of the PDP’s February 25 election candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for exposing President Bola Tinubu’s alleged fake certificate.
The party appealed to right thinking Nigerians to debar from such a malicious claim. They described the claim as “ill-intentioned attempt” to drag the governor and the party into a situation that is undergoing the processes of law.
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This was contained in a statement released on Wednesday by the party’s Publicity Secretary, Borono Bassey,
titled, ‘Re- Governor Umo Éno, Akwa Ibom PDP celebrate Atiku’s efforts for exposing Tinubu’s alleged fake certificate.’
“The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State was drawn earlier today, to an obviously fake news item being circulated on social media alleging that our party and the governor of Akwa Ibom State and leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Pastor Umo Eno, 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.
Also contained in the statement was; “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.”
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In addition, the statement included; “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’!!.”
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