Nigeria, March 16 -- A senator from Cross River State, Asuquo Ekpenyong, has denied remarks attributed to him in an opinion article written by Etim Etim, a communications director in the Akwa Ibom Governor, Umo Eno's re-election campaign group.

Mr Ekpenyong said the insinuation in the article was false and demanded an immediate retraction.

Mr Etim is the director of strategic communications for the ARISE Renewed Hope Initiative, the political platform coordinating Governor Eno's re-election campaign.

In the opinion piece published on 14 March by TheCable, Mr Etim wrote that a senator from Cross River privately criticised his state government's handling of the oil well dispute with Akwa Ibom.

According to the article, the unnamed senat...