Atabong,.bakassi and akpabuyo were like the settlement for slave trading when it's was abolish,...so both of them belong there


They can claim Efik or ibibio....when they abolish slave trading everyone eventually mix...some goes back to ,some stay back...

Invest4growth:
Donald Dukes response is sharp, on point, factual, straight to the point and non abusive. It is a knockout
But I would have supported a private meeting to avert this national.disgrace
There are lessons to.be learnt. The first being never play to the gallery. Why would a Mrs ita giwa use a Donald duke as contact person when she has a blood brother or daughter who are more trust worthy than a former state governor. Another lesson being that do not ignore your own state.
So Mrs Ita Giwa is from Akwa ibom state. I doubt if many Nigerians know this. I have always associated her with Cross Rivers State

She was from Cross Rivers State and serving the State at various levels before the creation of Akwaibom State in 1993.

Sangoamadioha1:
[/b] Contrarily, Mma Floxy, has been known to be courtesan in her political and business dealings. All said, it will be a betrayal of my upbringing to be abusive or cast aspersions on such a personage. Politics should never be a platform that denigrates the ethos of respect to our elders. Thank You.[b]




See bad mouth 😂. You call person olosho and still say you no dey abuse am.

E get the kind speech wey dem go use for person, na dictionary go dey with am until e finish the speech. Duke is badt boy!

Abagworo:
All my life I always thought Ita Giwa was Efik and it's a shocker to me she's Ibibio and Igbo enjoying hospitality of the Efik and even taking up their political slots. Crossriver is indeed a welcoming place cause I can't see that happening in Akwaibom.

can you also see that happening in Abia...before our eyes Theodore orji sack una imo ,Anambra , Enugu from the state service....it can't be done so by other regions.....

ITA giwa is from Bakassi...say Atabong..she can choose ibibio or efik

PopQueenAgency:


He called her a courtesan. That's an outright insult.

You purposefully removed the adjective "political" to drive another agenda.

So if I call Atiku Abubaka or Wike a political prostitute, it's an insult? That just the reality.

Ita Giwa has been jumping from one political party to another since 1999. From PDP to ANPP, to PDP, to APC. This is the fact and not an insult.

Omo see plenty insults with well constructed English

powerhouse3:
can you also see that happening in Abia...before our eyes Theodore orji sack una imo ,Anambra , Enugu from the state service....it can't be done so by other regions.....

ITA giwa is from Bakassi...say Atabong..she can choose ibibio or efik

Okonjo Iweala is from Delta State but occupies Ministerial positions of Abians on three occasions. Did you see Abians protest?

fergie001:
There has been some frosty relationship between the former Cross-River State Governor, Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa "Mama Bakassi" as she is fondly called.

Indeed, in May 2022, Ita Giwa knocked Duke for not inviting her to the PDP meeting, saying, “When the destiny and political future of an entire ethnic nationality is to be deliberated upon, it requires that partisanship and chauvinistic sentiments be set aside. All shades of opinion and all tendencies have to be given the space to find expression.

“The recent so-called non-partisan consultation convened by H.E Donald Duke ostensibly to deliberate on governorship power shift to the south and possibility of coming up with a consensus Governorship candidate might have been commendable but for the fact that it was clearly not all inclusive.

“How such an assembly can be called without my involvement and participation is downright insulting not just to my person but the Efik Kingdom of which I represent in my capacity as Mother of the women in the Kingdom.

“It also demonstrates utter disregard for the women of the Southern Senatorial Zone of who by the grace of God, I am a leading light of.

“Even as the matter can be said to be of a political nature, with all modesty I make bold to say I parade the most impressive political portfolio of all political actors in the zone.”

Duke responds


SOURCE: CrossRiverWatch


Earlier this year, during Campaign rallies in the Southern part of the State, the 77-year-old followed up with another salvo, saying the former Governor (Duke) came to the State with a briefcase and squatted in a friend’s house (before he became Governor).

What a revelation from Sir Duke.

My brother, e no go nice to argue with you o. But to be candid, Donald Duke did what all the governors after him combined couldn't. If you have lived and worked in Calabar for the last fifteen to twenty years, you will attest to that fact. Tinapa had a plan. It's a project that was audited by international investigators and these guys were not the 'pay go' guys, they were real and independent auditors. That said, a lot has happened in Cross River that you really don't know about so you shouldn't come online and be telling Donald Duke to shut up. Besides, during the endsars lockdown, who was the first to come out and tell the boys around the state to calm down, wasn't it Donald Duke? I Sha no need argue plenty with you but them no born you well to stand within fifty meters of the man and tell him to shut up.

festacman:
Aesthetically, Florence Ita-Giwa is at liberty, like any other woman, to make effort to look beautiful. Politically, however, there is basically no difference between Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa. They are part of the selfish politicians that keep riding on the back of people of Cross River people to advance political and financial interests since the formation of PDP in 1989. They may change political parties, but their motives remain the same.

What is still baffling today is how Donald Duke, as governor of Cross River State, sunk billions of Naira in Tinapa Project, a project of which he alone seems to understand in the whole in Cross River State because even Liyel Imoke the successor governor he installed abandoned it and successive governors followed suit. The buildings are still there wasting away and he, Donald Duke has not even been able to explain how to put the buildings to use as the one who conceived the project.

All over the world, a massive project as Tinapa comes with a document that shows the plan, the phases, the objectives, cost/benefit analysis, opportunities it offers, scalability, how it will impact other sectors, etc. This helps everybody to buy into the project and successive governments would find it easy to continue or even improve upon. Tinapa looks now like Donald Duke's personal pet vanity project.

Donald Duke should shut the f*ck up.

Boldideas:



😀😁😂😂😂😂😀😀😀😊😀😁😁😂😂 This response na wa o. Its like she is using style to say Aunty you be old school. You're too old for all these... I be like pikin to you too😀😁😂😁😀

Exactly😂

9jatriot:
Duke is a fine gentleman I agree.

Yes, I did read it and can see what he said she accused him of, but I am saying until this response I did not know if there was any accusation in the first place. Did you?

Oh sure.
The mama sought disrespect. The man responded.

Kekenary:
My brother, e no go nice to argue with you o. But to be candid, Donald Duke did what all the governors after him combined couldn't. If you have lived and worked in Calabar for the last fifteen to twenty years, you will attest to that fact. Tinapa had a plan. It's a project that was audited by international investigators and these guys were not the 'pay go' guys, they were real and independent auditors. That said, a lot has happened in Cross River that you really don't know about so you shouldn't come online and be telling Donald Duke to shut up. Besides, during the endsars lockdown, who was the first to come out and tell the boys around the state to calm down, wasn't it Donald Duke? I Sha no need argue plenty with you but them no born you well to stand within fifty meters of the man and tell him to shut up.

Cross rivers state under Donald Duke remains unbeatable. All the governors after him have not matched him. Ben Ayade is the worst so far. With him, Calabar streets became refuse dumps.

No comment

MadamExcellency:


Okonjo Iweala is from Delta State but occupies Ministerial positions of Abians on three occasions. Did you see Abians protest?

Okonjo Iweala occupies positions in Abia? Ah ah. Bros Abi you smoke igbo?

What has WTO got to do with Abia state? Or you think Abia state nominated her for the position?

Again bros, you smoke igbo?

festacman:
Aesthetically, Florence Ita-Giwa is at liberty, like any other woman, to make effort to look beautiful. Politically, however, there is basically no difference between Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa. They are part of the selfish politicians that keep riding on the back of people of Cross River people to advance political and financial interests since the formation of PDP in 1989. They may change political parties, but their motives remain the same.

What is still baffling today is how Donald Duke, as governor of Cross River State, sunk billions of Naira in Tinapa Project, a project of which he alone seems to understand in the whole in Cross River State because even Liyel Imoke the successor governor he installed abandoned it and successive governors followed suit. The buildings are still there wasting away and he, Donald Duke has not even been able to explain how to put the buildings to use as the one who conceived the project.

All over the world, a massive project as Tinapa comes with a document that shows the plan, the phases, the objectives, cost/benefit analysis, opportunities it offers, scalability, how it will impact other sectors, etc. This helps everybody to buy into the project and successive governments would find it easy to continue or even improve upon. Tinapa looks now like Donald Duke's personal pet vanity project.

Donald Duke should shut the f*ck up.

All this long thing.....
Rent to homeless people or better still relocate or turn am to IDP...make you come see flexing....Duke u try, na them no get vision.
Egg break, yu dey cry Humpty Dumpty....you no go fry am.....?!

Okoroawusa:
Is this necessary?

Yes o!

Sometimes busy bodies need it to cool off

Abagworo:
All my life I always thought Ita Giwa was Efik and it's a shocker to me she's Ibibio and Igbo enjoying hospitality of the Efik and even taking up their political slots. Crossriver is indeed a welcoming place cause I can't see that happening in Akwaibom.

It is an open secret that giwa is not efik but from oron.most bakassi and akpabuyo people are settlers.crs esp efiks are very welcoming due to their laissez faire lifestyle and early contact with europeans.crs is the most accommodating state in the south outside lagos.akwa ibom dislike outsiders

Senator Florence Ita Giwa has been on the scene since the 1950s and in her old age, she opted for liposuction to lift up her baggy breast to keep deceiving the randy politicians who.petronise her. No wonder, each time you see her video or photo, you see her deliberately attempt to flaunt her medical breasts in your face.

powerhouse3:
Atabong,.bakassi and akpabuyo were like the settlement for slave trading when it's was abolish,...so both of them belong there


They can claim Efik or ibibio....when they abolish slave trading everyone eventually mix...some goes back to ,some stay back...

True.example is the famous ironbar family

powerhouse3:
can you also see that happening in Abia...before our eyes Theodore orji sack una imo ,Anambra , Enugu from the state service....it can't be done so by other regions.....

ITA giwa is from Bakassi...say Atabong..she can choose ibibio or efik

She's not from crs oga

MadamExcellency:


You purposefully removed the adjective "political" to drive another agenda.

So if I call Atiku Abubaka or Wike a political prostitute, it's an insult? That just the reality.

Ita Giwa has been jumping from one political party to another since 1999. From PDP to ANPP, to PDP, to APC. This is the fact and not an insult.

Ita giwa bleeps big time politician and young boys

MadamExcellency:


Okonjo Iweala is from Delta State but occupies Ministerial positions of Abians on three occasions. Did you see Abians protest?

She doesn't claim abia unlike giwa

Just when i was wondering what " duties " mama bakassi carried out as , ahem , special assistant to the president that " remained classified " the former governor followed it up by saying madam ita-giwa's dealings in both politics and business is courtesan in nature ! Oops ! Some respectful child he is .

And how is a trainee nurse in 1952 be 77 years in 2023 ? Are we looking at future kim k at 87 years ? Just thinking out loud

I keep wondering at men that insist on throwing shade and being “savage”.

His entire takedown was nothing more than two snaps and a twist, proving Ita-Giwa’s point.

festacman:
Aesthetically, Florence Ita-Giwa is at liberty, like any other woman, to make effort to look beautiful. Politically, however, there is basically no difference between Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa. They are part of the selfish politicians that keep riding on the back of people of Cross River people to advance political and financial interests since the formation of PDP in 1989. They may change political parties, but their motives remain the same.

What is still baffling today is how Donald Duke, as governor of Cross River State, sunk billions of Naira in Tinapa Project, a project of which he alone seems to understand in the whole in Cross River State because even Liyel Imoke the successor governor he installed abandoned it and successive governors followed suit. The buildings are still there wasting away and he, Donald Duke has not even been able to explain how to put the buildings to use as the one who conceived the project.

All over the world, a massive project as Tinapa comes with a document that shows the plan, the phases, the objectives, cost/benefit analysis, opportunities it offers, scalability, how it will impact other sectors, etc. This helps everybody to buy into the project and successive governments would find it easy to continue or even improve upon. Tinapa looks now like Donald Duke's personal pet vanity project.

Donald Duke should shut the f*ck up.

You guys are funny. See how you rubbish that beautiful idea of Tinapa. Liyel Imoke killed it. It was the death of calabar port that killed Tinapa and that's beyond state governor because OBJ deliberately killed other ports in Nigeria just to make sure everything comes into Nigeria through the southwest, so Ogun can develop as the state next to Lagos. It worked. When Lagos became filled up, companies were now moving to Ogun state.

BENEAMATA:
Just when i was wondering what " duties " mama bakassi carried out as , ahem , special assistant to the president that " remained classified " the former governor followed it up by saying madam ita-giwa's dealings in both politics and business is courtesan in nature ! Oops ! Some respectful child he is.

And how is a trainee nurse in 1952 be 77 years in 2023 ? Are we looking at future kim k at 87 years ? Just thinking out loud

He even told her that she's not from Cross River - state she represented at the NASS.

What about the civil war olosho, I mean the commando girl?

ZACHIE:
Now, this is the cruelest attack anyone ever dished to any person this year. This is insanely cruel.
Forget all the sweet nonsense, Donald Duke rubbed that woman in the mud. This is unforgivable.

Check that word COURTESAN. Analyse it and understand the bile in Donald Duke.

Wicked.
Ashewo osi.

garfield1:


She doesn't claim abia unlike giwa

you don carry people ministerial slot, you still need to announce say you're from there?

Senator Bent is a Yoruba woman married to a man from Adamawa and she represented Adamawa at the national assembly. You become indigen by marriage. Alison Madueke was using Anambra slot too.

How can you tell such a woman who represented the state at NASS she's not an indigen? Donald is more exposed than this.

BALLOSKI:
you don carry people ministerial slot, you still need to announce say you're from there?

Senator Bent is a Yoruba woman married to a man from Adamawa and she represented Adamawa at the national assembly. You become indigen by marriage. Alison Madueke was using Anambra slot too.

How can you tell such a woman who represented the state at NASS she's not an indigen? Donald is more exposed than this.

She claims to be from crs aboriginally not by marriage.

BALLOSKI:
He even told her that she's not from Cross River - state she represented at the NASS.

mama , should chill oh , abeg . That duke guy might spill more unpalatable things ( not that i love gossip , honest ) .if we check well , donald must have passed on the chance to get his' in times past . As in it takes some discipline and willpower for the chaste opposite sex to resist the handsome former governor how much more the unabashed cougars . . . . . .

Penisman:


It was a friendly missile launch, albeit successful.

It hit the target as anticipated.

Hahahaha

Gbamsolutely stated.

[You seem to be low on ideas, to think that it's the job of a former governor to tell the story and the idea behind a state government project. Did successive Governors consult him for his input? Is it not a norm In the Nigerian political space for successive Governors to abandon the uncompleted projects of their predecessors and forge their own personal path? Government is supposed to be a continuum, but it never happens in Nigeria. There are many examples FG and ASUU, Rauf Aregbesola and the incumbent Govermor of his state. The list long. Before taking sides do your research and have your facts handy.





125771838]Aesthetically, Florence Ita-Giwa is at liberty, like any other woman, to make effort to look beautiful. Politically, however, there is basically no difference between Donald Duke and Florence Ita-Giwa. They are part of the selfish politicians that keep riding on the back of people of Cross River people to advance political and financial interests since the formation of PDP in 1989. They may change political parties, but their motives remain the same.

What is still baffling today is how Donald Duke, as governor of Cross River State, sunk billions of Naira in Tinapa Project, a project of which he alone seems to understand in the whole in Cross River State because even Liyel Imoke the successor governor he installed abandoned it and successive governors followed suit. The buildings are still there wasting away and he, Donald Duke has not even been able to explain how to put the buildings to use as the one who conceived the project.

All over the world, a massive project as Tinapa comes with a document that shows the plan, the phases, the objectives, cost/benefit analysis, opportunities it offers, scalability, how it will impact other sectors, etc. This helps everybody to buy into the project and successive governments would find it easy to continue or even improve upon. Tinapa looks now like Donald Duke's personal pet vanity project.

Donald Duke should shut the f*ck up.[/quote]