By Bassey Willie
Since the Federal High Court, Uyo verdict of February 27, 2017 which
ousted one Mr Bassey Albert Akpan, popularly called OBA, as the Senator
representing Akwa Ibom North East senatorial district and his subsequent
inability to get a stay of execution of the judgement at the same Court
on Friday, 31 March, 2017, his media aide, one Anny Michaels has
continued to fabricate all forms of falsehood and lies with intention of
misinforming the supporters of the judiciary confirmed Senator, Rt.
Hon. Bassey Etim and the generality of Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial
District, who overwhelmingly voted for Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim during the
PDP primaries of 2014 and the general election of 2015.
One of
the recent lies from Anny Michaels is a post on Facebook, captioned
“Bassey Etim Weeps as Senate walks him out”, with a rider, “Warned Never
to Return” which has been shared by some political jobbers who proud
themselves as supporters of the ousted Senator, Mr Bassey Albert.
Then any reasonably person should ask him where and when this happened,
the Senate proceeding is always aired live by NTA and other electronic
media in the country, and this type of thing happened in the senate, no
TV station, no Radio station or Newspaper has carried the news up till
now?, i just finished listening to news-track in the Channels, no such
news. What a lie from the pit of hell from self imposed senator, Mr
Bassey Albert Akpan.
Regrettably, i have painstakingly checked
all the chapels record in NUJ in Akwa Ibom State to ascertained the
status of Anny Michaels in the Union, without founding his name in any
of the chapels, thereby portraying him as one of the quacks going around
to spread falsehood, in order to deceived people and pleased members of
his political party, forgetting that a trained journalist should be non
partisan and his write ups must be nothing but the truth.
I want
to states explicitly here that the authentic Senator representing Akwa
Ibom North East Senatorial District, Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim was at no time
blocked from entering the National Assembly, nor talking about weeping,
let me just borrow a great music legend, Lucky Dube in one of his album
that says “Big boys don’t cry” what circumstances could make a man that
won the PDP primaries and his case at the Court to cry?, cry for who
and for what?, it is only frustrated people like Mr Bassey Albert Akpan
and his jobless supporters that can cry, Certainly not Rt. Hon. Bassey
Etim.
If there is any reason whatsoever for anybody to weep in
this matter, it should be the ousted senator Bassey Albert Akpan, who
had promised the Senate President, Bokula Saraki to come back to Abuja
this week with stay of execution order, but was out-rightly embarrassed
last Friday by the ruling of Honourable Justice F. O. Riman, who struck
out his frivolous application and awarded cost of #50,000 each to Mr
Bassey Albert Akpan and the PDP as penalty.
Today, being Tuesday,
April 4, 2017, our judiciary confirmed Senator, Rt. Hon Bassey Etim,
BAFIL was at the National Assembly complex for a very crucial meeting
with the Senate President, Bokula Saraki at his office to perfect plans
for his inauguration, there was no time when the meeting lasted that
anybody was dragged out or barred from entering the National Assembly,
if there is anybody that was barred from the Senate is Bassey Akpan, and
he remain barred.
It was during the course of the meeting that
one Senator from Akwa Ibom State walked in and met Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim
at Saraki’s office, after exchanging pleasantries begged the Judiciary
confirmed Senator to exercise patient till the judgement of the Appeal
Court before his inauguration for the interest of peace in Akwa Ibom
State.
Anny Michaels is a renowned propagandist, whose even good
morning is falsehood, this was clearly exemplified during the
proceedings of this case at the Federal High Court, Uyo, on many
occasions, he was apprehended by security personnel in the Court, every
sane Nigeria knows that National Assembly is a public place where every
citizen of this country has the right to visit, either to transact
business or gives ideas for the good of the country, and nobody can be
barred from entry, except on adverse security reason.
This is
with exception for the chambers of the two houses there, Senate and the
House of Representatives, which are exclusively reserved for Senators
and the Honourable Members.
The judiciary confirmed Senator Bassey Etim
did not go the chamber of the senate, knowing that it will be proper for
him to go there after his swearing in, which will come up very soon.
Maybe, the ousted Senator Bassey Albert Akpan is still living with the
memory of what happened to his brother, who was chased out from the
senate chambers in 2007, and think that same should happened to another
person, but unfortunately for him, Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim is the man that
truly holds the mandate.
The people of Akwa Ibom North East
Senatorial District, Supporters of Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim and entire Akwa
Ibom People should disregard in totality the rumours and fabrications
currently spreading on the social media by faceless people, who think
that the only way the engaged themselves and feed their family is to
engage in political jobbing.
Already, our Judiciary confirmed
Senator has assured that our legal team are currently studying the
fictitious write up, and any aspect found to be libellous, a legal
action will be instituted against the writer, and we are rest assured
that, the writer of that post is not a journalists, because he doesn’t
have the prerequisite qualification to practice.
Every citizen of
Akwa Ibom North East Senatorial District must keep faith with our
Judiciary confirmed Senator, Rt. Hon. Bassey Etim because every impostor
must be removed from the senate, and OBA has already meets his
political waterloo.
Very soon, Bassey Etim will be sworn in and the
people shall be given a voice in the senate, all those years that the
locust has eaten will be restored.
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