Akwa Ibom court grants bail to Princess Udoito after 270 days in custody

The Akwa Ibom State High Court has granted bail to Princess Godsown Udoito aft she spent 270 days astatine the Uyo Correctional Facility implicit alleged defamatory remarks against Governor Umo Eno.

The State High Court, arsenic good arsenic the Court of Appeal successful Calabar, had earlier denied Udoito bail connected the grounds of the gravity of the alleged offences, formation hazard and imaginable hazard to nationalist order.

Her prolonged detention had generated contention and appeals crossed the state, with the Ekid People’s Union (EPU), women groups and the Oku Ibom Ibibio, His Eminence Nteyin Solomon Etuk, intervening done passionate appeals to the politician to forgive the suspect and facilitate her release.

Reacting to Udoito’s merchandise connected bail, the EPU, successful a connection connected Wednesday titled, “Our Princess Is Free!”, thanked Governor Eno for his relation successful the merchandise of their daughter.

The statement, endorsed by the President General, Dr. Samuel Udonsak, and Secretary General, Hon. (Barr.) Bassey Dan-Abia, besides thanked the apex royal begetter successful Akwa Ibom, Nteyin Etuk, the paramount rulers of Eket and Esit Eket, arsenic good arsenic different stakeholders successful the country who appealed to the politician for a peaceful solution of the matter.

The national said Udoito was receiving post-release care.

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