The Deputy Director-General of Pastor Umo Eno’s campaign organisation, Dr Godwin Ntukude, has debunked the rumour that the 2023 Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Pastor Umo Eno, has stepped down for Mr Akan Okon.
He thereafter blamed the speculation on the antics of fake prophets who swindle their victims by giving them false hope and fake prophecies.
Mr. Okon, one of the party’s governorship aspirants had instituted a lawsuit against Eno, who is Governor Udom Emmanuel’s preferred candidate, over alleged certificate forgery.
In suit no. FHC/UY/CS/110/2022 dated June 7, 2022, Okon who is the immediate past Commissioner for Economic Development and Ibom Deep Seaport, prayed the court to disqualify Eno for having allegedly presented a forged West African School Certificate issued to him in 1981 and 1983; forged voter’s card as well as an altered date of birth.
There were rumours in the state that Eno later succumbed to the pressure and stepped down for Okon.
But Ntukude, in an interview session anchored by the Special Assistant to the Governor on Research and Documentation, Mr Essien Ndueso on Comfort FM, blamed false prophets who are solely materially driven for “driving Mr Okon into peddling such false news stories.”
According to him, “until politicians begin to rely on sound pieces of advice from major stakeholders and accept realities, they would continue to fall prey to greedy prophets who aim at exploiting and rendering them...
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