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Anti-Akpabio Campaign: Annang women threaten to ostracize Patience Akpabio
Women of Annang land, one of the dominant ethnic group in Akwa Ibom State, have threatened to ostracize Mrs. Patience Ibanga Akpabio over what they described as her campaign of calumny against her brother-in-law, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, President of the Nigerian tenth senate.
The threat, issued under the auspices of Annang Women Advocacy Network International (AWANI), is contained in a statement jointly signed by the President, Uduak Essien (Canada), and Secretary, Mary Enang (United Kingdom).
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Berating Mrs. Patience Akpabio for accusing the Senate President of murder without providing proof, the mothers and daughters of Annang land at home and abroad said in the statement dated 22nd October, 2025: “Annang Women Advocacy Network will not stand idly by while you, for reasons known only to you, attempt to pull down our community, its values and our illustrious son. We therefore issue this solemn warning: Desist immediately from your abominable acts. Withdraw your venomous allegations, before it’s too late.”
They further told her: “Stop, before the fight you cannot win consumes you completely. We are watching and ready to institute “ngwo ntie” against you as is our Annang custom and age long traditional practice by women for women that angered the land.
“Annang land will cease to be fruitful for you. You cannot sow or reap positively from Annang land. You cannot benefit in any way from Annang and her people. You cannot conduct business with us anywhere in the world. You cannot buy or sell in our markets. You cannot relate in peace, profit from and acquire wealth from Annang women, daughters and children including your children born of Annang son. You would be ostracized.”
AWANI described Mrs. Patience Akpabio’s social media posts against Senator Akpabio as a sin against both God and man.
According to the group, “To insult and disgrace your brother in-law, your husband, children, grandchildren and posterity in the manner you are doing is to bring upon yourself the wrath of both God and man, and you have done so with a reckless tongue that knows no fear for God and man. You are dancing naked in the market square.
As mothers, wives and daughters, we are deeply aggrieved that a wife would become the mouthpiece for scandal against a man who sits as an elder of our land, against her husband, against her own children and children’s children.
“Your actions are a direct affront to the respect and decorum we hold sacred in Annang land. It is therefore disturbing and shameful to witness such public desecration of dignity and decency from you.”
Noting that “life and death are in the power of the tongue,” AWANI told Mrs. Patience Akpabio: “You have chosen to speak death—falsehood —abomination upon the name and reputation of our son and brother, Senator Obot Akpabio, the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and his wife. This is not just a political misstep; it is a spiritual transgression. Your words, born of malice and deceit, seek to burn down a legacy built over decades, but will end up destroying you and those that support this abomination against Annang land and Akwa Ibom State. Our land condemns this abomination. Our ancestors condemn it, our elders, youths, women and posterity condemn your actions.”
AWANI warned Mrs. Patience Akpabio to immediately end her treacherous campaign against Senator Akpabio and apologize immediately or prepare to face dire consequences.
“Let this be the final word from the mothers and daughters of Annang land. Heed this warning and retrace your steps. Make amends,” the group said.
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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