Governor Udom Emmanuel during the swearing-in of Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem as the Secretary to the Akwa Ibom State Government, SSG.The chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akwa Ibom State, Patrick Albert, has appealed to the state government to reconsider its order banning commissioners and the governor’s aides from granting press interviews.
Only the commissioner for information and the chief press secretary to the governor are permitted to speak for the state government and Governor Udom Emmanuel respectively, the government said. “My first reaction to that is that government has the right to redirect its operations but that shouldn’t be done at the expense of adequate information to the public,” Mr Albert said on Saturday in an interview with Passion 94.5 FM, Uyo.
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