COVID-19: Journalists fume as Udom Emmanuel bars them from Akwa Ibom state event
Council as well as the newly elected executive of the Peoples Democratic Party which held at the Banquet Hall of the Government House, Uyo, over COVID-19 scare.
Chairman of the Correspondents Chapel in the state, Comrade Idongesit Ashameri of Daily Independent Newspapers wondered why the government could allow party loyalists, well-wishers and members of interest groups to attend the two inaugurations but barred journalists from performing their duties. According to her, “as those who midwifed the democracy we are all enjoying today, we know that the media as the Fourth Estate of the realm has been at the forefront of projecting government activities. When COVID-19 started in Nigeria, the media were at the forefront of the battle.
“I got the shock of my life today when I discovered that two prominent events in the State, the swearing-in of the 8 new members of State Executive Council and swearing-in of the new State Exco of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that no member of the Correspondents’ Chapel was invited to cover that event.
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