UNEDITED
GOVERNMENT OF AKWA IBOM STATE
23/06/21
PRESS RELEASE
GOVERNOR UDOM EMMANUEL SETS UP 5-MAN PANEL TO REVIEW INIOBONG EKPO’S CASE
We have read various reports mainly on the social media space concerning the administrative sanction said to have been taken by the Management of the Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) against one of its students, Iniobong Ekpo, leading to his expulsion from the University.
We have equally followed the media feeding frenzy by the usual motely crowd of political jobbers and inveterate rabble rousers who have maliciously tried to link the action taken by the university authority to the Visitor of the University, His Excellency, Governor Udom Emmanuel.
We wish to state here emphatically that Governor Emmanuel, a known apostle of freedom of expression, was and is still not aware of this purely administrative action reportedly undertaken by the university.
He has accordingly, directed the constitution of a Panel comprising five members, to review the case and submit its report immediately. The Panel is to be headed by the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet.
Signed:
Ekerete Udoh
Senior Special Assistant, Media and Chief Press Secretary to the Governor
