Rt. Hon. Sam Ikon Obong Paul Ekpo, can he tame the rising tide against Ikon?
Hon. Bassey Etienam leading lawmakers against Ikon?
What started as a crisis of confidence in the
Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has taken a different dimension as
members refused to attend house plenary leaving the speaker, Elder
Samuel Ikon helpless and embarrassed last Tuesday before visiting
Ugandans.
Although
the speaker has always denied that there is no crises in the State
House of Assembly, it became apparently clear last Tuesday when almost
all the members of the House exception of Onofiok Luke and Ekaette Ebong
Okon who were out of the state were all present at the executive
session which lasted for some hours, but after the executive session
most members instead of moving to the chambers for plenary, headed to
their offices and from there move to their individual cars and went home
without attending the sitting for the day.
To
serve his face from the imminent embarrassment due to the visiting
legislators who came from Uganda to visit the state Assembly, the
speaker, Sam Ikon was compelled to conduct last Tuesday sitting with
just 7 members including himself to make it 8.
