“I made up my mind to forgive people who publish falsehood against me; one of them said since my name sells fast and they need to feed their children and send them to school, they have no choice. I have been providing jobs and feeding families without knowing”.
~ Godswill Akpabio, CON
Premium Times online newspapers had long joined the fast swelling league of yellow journalism practitioners in Nigeria. It is now a prominent news medium exploited by politicians to score cheap points. Their recent partisan roles in Akwa Ibom State political landscape provides ample evidence.
Earlier today, in its usual jaundiced style, it published a false report where it conjured make-belief proceedings of the Federal High Court 6, sitting at Abuja. In a desperate bid to earn its pay and satisfy its pay masters, it claimed Senator Godswill Akpabio was part of the proceedings initiated by one DIG Ekpoudom against APC and INEC where the latter claimed he won some Senatorial Primary conducted by God-knows-who on May 27, 2022 (Children’s Day).
Of course, mischief makers and foot soldiers of this purveyor of falsehood have gone to town with the fake story just because Godswil Akpabio is mentioned.
The name has become the fastest trading commodity in the media space. How else can Premium Times be relevant? Who would pay heed to AriseTV channel if not for Senator Akpabio’s name and sky grazing profile?
Stories from Premium Times’ reports – for those who can still afford the risk – must be taken for what they are; subject to multiple facts check.
For the records, there was no case anywhere in Nigeria where Senator Akpabio was a Party.
This slanted report therefore earns pardon in advance so long as it puts food on tables and sends wards to school. That is Godswill Akpabio’s uncommon default setting – putting smiles on faces even at his own expense!
Obong Imo Akpan,
Ukpom Ikot Nyoho, Ikono LGA.
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