Akwa Ibom State government has uncovered a plot by the opposition party in the state to eliminate people who served as polling agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election in order to prevent them from testifying at the election petition tribunal scheduled to start sitting in Uyo next week.
Governor Godswill Akpabio said in Uyo, on Friday, that there was a security report linking an opposition party in the state to a killer squad hired to attack PDP agents and supporters in order to stop them from coming forward as witnesses when the tribunal begins to hear the case brought by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which is seeking to nullify the victory of the PDP in the last gubernatorial election in the state.
Akpabio was reacting to the shooting in Uyo of Dr Francis Udoikpong, who was the governor’s campaign coordinator in the build-up to the election and the PDP agent for Ika Local Council during the election.
Dr Udoikpong, a former chairman of Ika Local Council, was shot and wounded in Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, by yet-to-be-identified men on a motor bike.
Deputy governor of the state, Obong Nsima Ekere, said that former ACN members, who defected to the PDP and current members of the ACN, who have accepted the victory of the PDP and congratulated the governor, were also targeted for elimination by the killer squad.
The state chairman of the ACN, Aniekan Akpan, who has since congratulated Governor Akpabio on his victory, confirmed the threat to members of the party who have conceded defeat to the PDP.
Akpan was said to have been threatened through anonymous telephone calls by people who have vowed to deal with him for congratulating the governor and issuing a statement to say that his party, the ACN, lost in a fair and transparent contest.
Obong Ekere, has however, described “the threats and attacks on party members as another desperate and attempt by the opposition to capture power by all means.”
He warned that such desperate politicians are bound to fail because “power comes from God, and it is for the electorate to decide who they want as leaders.”
“Failed politicians in the state should note that sovereignty rests with the people,” Obong Ekere said, adding that the people have spoken.
He observed that those who are behind the renewed spate of violence in the state were the same people who sponsored the mayhem that engulfed the state in the build-up to the last elections.
He explained that the opposition has an agenda to instigate a climate of insecurity and fear in the state because they have found that they could not fault the Akpabio administration on the basis of performance given the uncommon transformation that the governor has brought about in the state.
Governor Godswill Akpabio said in Uyo, on Friday, that there was a security report linking an opposition party in the state to a killer squad hired to attack PDP agents and supporters in order to stop them from coming forward as witnesses when the tribunal begins to hear the case brought by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which is seeking to nullify the victory of the PDP in the last gubernatorial election in the state.
Akpabio was reacting to the shooting in Uyo of Dr Francis Udoikpong, who was the governor’s campaign coordinator in the build-up to the election and the PDP agent for Ika Local Council during the election.
Dr Udoikpong, a former chairman of Ika Local Council, was shot and wounded in Ewet Housing Estate, Uyo, by yet-to-be-identified men on a motor bike.
Deputy governor of the state, Obong Nsima Ekere, said that former ACN members, who defected to the PDP and current members of the ACN, who have accepted the victory of the PDP and congratulated the governor, were also targeted for elimination by the killer squad.
The state chairman of the ACN, Aniekan Akpan, who has since congratulated Governor Akpabio on his victory, confirmed the threat to members of the party who have conceded defeat to the PDP.
Akpan was said to have been threatened through anonymous telephone calls by people who have vowed to deal with him for congratulating the governor and issuing a statement to say that his party, the ACN, lost in a fair and transparent contest.
Obong Ekere, has however, described “the threats and attacks on party members as another desperate and attempt by the opposition to capture power by all means.”
He warned that such desperate politicians are bound to fail because “power comes from God, and it is for the electorate to decide who they want as leaders.”
“Failed politicians in the state should note that sovereignty rests with the people,” Obong Ekere said, adding that the people have spoken.
He observed that those who are behind the renewed spate of violence in the state were the same people who sponsored the mayhem that engulfed the state in the build-up to the last elections.
He explained that the opposition has an agenda to instigate a climate of insecurity and fear in the state because they have found that they could not fault the Akpabio administration on the basis of performance given the uncommon transformation that the governor has brought about in the state.
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