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AKWA IBOM GOVERNMENT EVICTS CHANNELS TV CREW OVER GOVERNOR’S DEFECTION VIDEO
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The Akwa Ibom State Government has evicted a Channels TV crew, comprising a journalist and a cameraman, from the press centre inside Government House, Uyo, over the publication of a video clip in which Governor Umo Eno confirmed his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). According to sources, Governor Eno’s spokesperson, Ekerete Udoh, assembled reporters in the Government House Press Corps and warned them against making the video of the governor’s remarks public. However, Channels TV aired the video clips of Mr Eno’s remarks, which sources say have embarrassed the governor. The governor’s defection is said to be scheduled for the first week of June, and he cited the PDP leadership crisis, particularly the office of the party’s national secretary, as the reason for his imminent defection. Mr Eno told his cabinet members to prepare their resignation letters if they were unwilling to defect with him to the APC. “We want our commissioners and members of Exco, appointees, and those of you who are saying that you would not come, you are free absolutely not to join me, but you won’t be in my State Executive Council,” the governor said. “Prepare to resign the day I announced that I am moving because you cannot; you are an appointee, and your loyalty is fully to me.” The eviction of the Channels TV crew is coming about four days after the station’s CEO, John Momoh, visited Governor Eno at the Government House. The General Manager of Channels TV, Ambrose Okoh, claimed he was not aware of the eviction of their reporter and cameraman.
