The Peoples Democratic Party may lose the governorship election in Akwa Ibom if unpopular candidates are allowed to be imposed on the people, former governor of the state, Obong Victor Attah, has said.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Attah, who led other state PDP leaders, stakeholders and youth, to a press conference in Abuja, warned that Governor Goodswill Akpabio’s insistence on imposing a successor will lead to the party’s failure in the forthcoming elections.
He said Akwa Ibom remains a stronghold of the PDP, assuring that President Goodluck Jonathan “will get one hundred percent” of the votes cast in the presidential elections come 2015.
But Attah who was flanked by Atuekon Don Etiebet, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Ufut Ekaette and Chief Edet Nkpubre, among others, said the same cannot be said about the governorship elections unless the national headquarters of the party intervenes.
“We state, with emphasis, that in view of the widespread disenchantment in the state PDP and in Akwa Ibom State as a whole, His Excellency, Chief Godswill Akpabio cannot claim to be able to single-handedly deliver the votes of Akwa Ibom people to the President in 2015.
“Since politics is a game of numbers and other parties have for some time now been engaged in an aggressive membership drive, we call upon our party at the national level to view as sabotage and as a serious anti-party offence, the removal of our membership registers by the state leadership of the party, since six months ago, from all the 329 wards to the governors’ lodge or the state party secretariat in Uyo,” Attah said.
Chief Don Etiebet decried the increasing spate of politically motivated violence in the state, saying Senator Helen Esuene and her campaign team were attacked for daring to seek for the governorship ticket of the party.