Worrisome State of APC in Akwa Ibom State: A Call for Your Urgent Intervention
Senate President Godswill Akpabio is facing accusations from some founding members of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State who claim he betrayed the party and sought to undermine it to secure a third term for himself.
The party members made these claims in a letter to President Bola Tinubu.
An urgent intervention was demanded in a letter signed by Elder Okokon James (Uyo Senatorial District), Peter Ibanga (Eket Senatorial District), and Chief Victor Affiah (Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District) to avert the party’s collapse in the state.
The stated titled, “Worrisome State of APC in Akwa Ibom State: A Call for Your Urgent Intervention.”
The statement partly read, “We, the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State, are compelled to write you this open letter. We have been with you since our days in the defunct Action Congress to the Action Congress of Nigeria, which later metamorphosed into our present party, the APC. We have never seen this kind of selfishness, greed, betrayal, and treachery before.
“The duo of the state Chairman of the party, Mr. Stephen Ntukekpo, and the Hon. Minister of Petroleum (Gas), Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, are telling whoever cares to listen that they were directed by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, to cripple the party in the state to give the PDP an easy ride to victory in the 2027 polls in exchange for the PDP’s support for the Senate President’s third-term ambition.
“We want to assure Mr. President that he won’t have party members to receive him when he comes to the state next year to campaign if something urgent is not done to revive and strengthen the party in the state.
“It is unbelievable that the party that produced a Senate President is completely dead in the state. Since he (Akpabio) joined APC, he has never been committed to your second-term ambition.”
In response, Special Assistant on Media to the Senate President, Mr. Jackson Udom classified the allegations as “beer parlour rumours,” while speaking to journalists.
“How much has he sold the party? APC is still very strong in Akwa Ibom State.
“What they want is for PDP and APC, which is under the leadership of the Senate President, to be fighting. Politics is beyond all that.
“Because of harmony, peace, and unity between Akpabio and Governor Umo Eno, they are alleging that APC has been sold out.
“They should wait for campaigns to start. This is beer parlour allegations.”
Punch