Nigeria, Sept. 10 -- Ata Ikiddeh, a close ally of Nigeria's Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has attacked aides of Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State, accusing them of betraying the governor by going to the airport to welcome the governor's predecessor, Udom Emmanuel.

On Thursday, some politicians, including aides of Mr Eno, trooped to the airport to welcome Mr Emmanuel, who was in Akwa Ibom for his cousin's burial - his first visit to the state after his successor, Mr Eno, whom he helped to become governor, left the PDP for the APC. Some of the aides also served the former while in office.

Describing the reception as a "honey trap" laid by Mr Emmanuel, Mr Ikiddeh, a former aide to Mr Akpabio, said that Mr Eno's aides who "fell for i...