Popular political and
issue based broadcast program, ‘Akwa Ibom Today’ formerly ‘Politics Today’ has
been yanked off air on AKBC Radio 90.5 FM. The program, I learnt, has been
blocked from airing for two consecutive weeks now because the producer, Samson
Akpan allowed Aloysius Etok, the senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial
District in the National Assembly to go on air and say things that are
perceived to have been uncomplimentary against Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa
Ibom State. I heard this gist the following day after the senator went on air
but I didn’t believe because this is the same thing that happened to Bush House
when it allowed Mr. Nsima Umoh of former ACN to go on air in the build up to
the 2011 general elections. You see why I said Akwa Ibom needs more private
stations? Below is what Senator Aloysius Etok said about the yanking off air of
‘Akwa Ibom Today’.
After
the interview I went back to Abuja. At about 9 pm, the TV producer called to
inform me that he had been chased out of Uyo and his programme banned on the
pretext of using the programme to insult the governor via Aloysius Etok. I
asked him whether he inserted anything strange into the script and he said no.
Godswill shouldn’t have banned that programme because it was on the same
programme that I used to sit and project Godswill to power. I paid for the
first quarter of that programme. He even favoured the programme to be renamed
Akwa Ibom Today.
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