MOTHER OF ALL BETRAYALS AS FRANK ARCHIBONG SELLS OUT AKOIYAK TO IBENO IN EXCHANGE FOR POLITICAL EMPIRE

Frank Archibong

By Manfred Ekpe

Stakeholders meeting has just ended at the country home of Hon. Akaniyene Tommey, the Eket Council boss, a few minutes ago. Frank Archibong, the Hon. Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in that meeting told the stakeholders to vote for Opolopm Ette, that he himself will control Opolopm Ette to avoid him working against Ekid interest in the House of Reps. This is even as Hon. Archibong has been unable to control Opolopm working against Ekid interest even as sitting commissioner in charge of local Govt under which Akoiyak falls.

While I will avoid giving details to avoid injuries to classified information that may go against Ekid interest, I can authoritatively report that the one of the real reasons that Hon. Frank Archibong is trying to sway Ekid the Ibeno way and subject Ekid to Ibeno colonization is because of the age long secret covenant he'd had with Opolopm which has roots in his plans to go to the House of Reps in 8 years time after Ibeno. Their political permutations is that the rotation will start in Eket all over again. Already the Esit Eket paramount ruler is totally under Ibeno control.

Prior to the PDP primaries, I had exposed how Frank Archibong entered into a secret pact to deliver Opolopm Ette in Eket. However, the Eket PDP delegates stood their ground and voted for and Eket man, DLAW. Frank Archibong all along was playing pranks and pretended as if he was supporting Ekid course. 

I have also stated how Frank Archibong connived with Opolopm Ette to force EPU to issue a press statement to debunk Itid Afigh Ekid press conference statement of 1st December 2021. That singular act made Bua Refinery to refuse recognizing Ekid as their landlords but keeps recognizing Ibeno even after promises to recognize Ekid immediately after the said press conference.

It is now stale news that Frank Archibong used Mr. Akwaekong Idim, the Chief of Staff to Eket council chairman to block Ekid people from using the prebooked Eket council hall for the press conference. We had to urgently hire a hall at Landmark Hotel, Marina Road for the event.

How can a true Ekid blood do everything in his life against Ekid interest? Or should we believe that a strange blood is among us? Why is Frank Archibong so inclined to Ibeno against Ekid interest even when he sees danger of annihilation? 

Ekid people can see how people can be so self centered that they care nothing about the interest of society and future generations. Ekid is now being run like a cult with instructions from Ibeno. Frank Archibong told someone sometime ago that the owner of Henserk Construction Company is being called Abasi Ikot Abasi by his people and he controls everything. And complained  why Eket people do not also call him Abasi Eket? Is this the duty of a god he is performing?

Eket people must be aware that Frank Archibong is running Eket Local Government Council while Akaniyene Tommey is only a helpless shadow chairman. For instance, Frontier Oil Company is constituting its Board of Trustees for the implementation of the PIA trust fund, and Chief Jack Udota submitted a form to the council chairman for signature on the space for council chairman's signature. But Frank Archibong seized the form, canceled Chief Udota's name, cancelled the council chairman's name, and  wrote in Pst. Ita Umo Udo's name and the nominee. He went ahead to sign the form and forwarded it to Frontier directly without the council chairman's signature or input.

Frank Archibong, for the purpose of delivering Eket Central to Opolopm Ette has also kicked out Jack Udota as political leader of Eket Central Zone and appointed Pst. Ita Umo Udo. It is left for Ekid people to see whether Pst. Ita Udo can betray Ekid interest by accepting personal gains to work against Ekid interest. Personally I don't think so as he is a man of integrity, having been one of the big 4 who formed Eket Integrity Alliance whose aim was to reform, reposition and redirect Ekid to lost glory days.

I can also say it authoritatively that all kinds of theories have already been created meant to mislead Ekid youths and people that House of Reps has nothing to do with Akoiyak and that Opolopm Ette is not an enemy of Ekid. Very soon honorarium servicemen will be given those theories to peddle on the social media.

Yet this Opolopm Ette annexed Large swarths of Akoiyak land in 2010 and built an estate, if not Barr. Emmanuel Udoh the then Eket council chairman who stopped him. The same Opolopm Ette was involved in the Eket/Ibeno war of 1993. In November 2021 I did report how he sponsored to Ibeno youths to address a press conference, asserting Ibeno as owners of Akoiyak and backlashing Ekid as a people without history. 

I call on the youths not to sell off their future for personal interests of a few greedy socalled stakeholders and leaders. I have a more classified information, details, facts and figures, which I cannot release now. It is a mother of all betrayals.Operation Ekid interest in the 2023 election is over and above any personal interest.