{"id":20016,"date":"2018-08-11T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20016"},"modified":"2018-08-11T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:24:45","slug":"akwa-ibom-apc-members-reject-akpabio-as-their-political-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20016","title":{"rendered":"AKWA IBOM APC MEMBERS REJECT AKPABIO AS THEIR POLITICAL LEADER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Members of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom state have frowned at<br \/>\nthe attempt by the national leaders of the party to crown former senate<br \/>\nminority leader, senator Godswill Akpabio, as the state leader of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Emmanuel Sam, a stalwart of the APC, on Thursday, said, they can not<br \/>\naccept Akpabio as their leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can not be led by a man who was brutal to us. We have not forgotten<br \/>\nthat his brutality costs the lives of some members of the defunct ACN who<br \/>\ndissolved into what is called APC today. He can never lead us. We will<br \/>\nresist it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sam was among members of the party who reacted to Akpabio&#8217;s repeated<br \/>\ndeclaration of himself as leader of the party and his wife, Ekaette Unoma,<br \/>\nas &#8220;mother of APC&#8221; in Akwa Ibom state during his reception rally in Ikot<br \/>\nEkpene.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio was officially received into the APC by the National leader of the<br \/>\nparty, Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu, and the party&#8217;s national chairman, Comrade<br \/>\nAdams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday 8th August.<\/p>\n<p>The former Governor repeatedly used the phrase, &#8220;under my leadership in the<br \/>\nparty&#8221; in a remark he made extemporaneously to confirm his acceptance of<br \/>\nmembership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the party believe that Akpabio&#8217;s repeated announcement of<br \/>\nhimself as leader of the party cowed the national chairman of the party<br \/>\ninto calling Akpabio the leader of the party without a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Obong Mike Edem, a chieftain of the APC from Itu said right thinking<br \/>\npersons in the party can not indulge Akpabio to superintend over them.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16843&amp;ad_type=62&amp;rl=180\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>He explained that it will be a broad self contradiction for Akpabio who<br \/>\nleft the PDP because a new entrant was rewarded over those who stood by the<br \/>\nPDP in her trying times, to want to be rewarded over those who laboured and<br \/>\nbuilt the APC over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He can not be our leader. He will be contradicting himself, because he can<br \/>\nnot reject a skewed reward system which favours newcomers in his former<br \/>\nparty, yet wants to be rewarded in APC through similar skewed arrangement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Edem insisted that Akpabio should not be given preference over senator<br \/>\nNelson Effiong, another APC senator from the state who joined the APC<br \/>\nearlier or the 2015 governorship candidate of the state who have been<br \/>\naround longer than Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently, Akpabio does not have any leadership position which makes him<br \/>\nsuperior to the other senator. When he resigned his position as senate<br \/>\nminority leader, he became but an ordinary senator. There are other people<br \/>\nin the party who have been senators before, who are more knowledgeable in<br \/>\nparty leadership and administration than Akpabio&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The party stalwart said reasonable members of the party will not work with<br \/>\nAkpabio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will not work with Akpabio. He persecuted us out of the PDP. When some<br \/>\nof us left, Akpabio led the PDP to doom. Now, PDP is no more, he is coming<br \/>\nto destroy the APC in the pretext of coming to build&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted that the APC will fail just as her main opposition, the PDP,<br \/>\nif the party leadership takes to celebrating and rewarding newcomers over<br \/>\nold members who have kept faith with the party over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a group, Akwa Ibom Progressives Watch says the APC will be more<br \/>\ndisunited under Akpabio if he is made leader of the party in the state as<br \/>\nrumoured.<\/p>\n<p>The group at a press conference addressed by her chairman, Mr. Innocent<br \/>\nSylvanus, on Thursday, warned that many people who left the PDP to the APC<br \/>\nbecause of Akpabio&#8217;s impunity can not work again with Akpabio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be a disaster to allow Akpabio lead the party. We want the<br \/>\nnational leader and chairman of the party to know this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We left PDP because of the kind of impunity Akpabio dished out to us.<br \/>\nThere is no guarantee that he has changed, so he will bring on the same<br \/>\nkind of impunity he used which killed his former party&#8221;, Sylvanus added.<\/p>\n<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom state have frowned at the attempt by the national leaders of the party to crown former senate minority leader, senator Godswill Akpabio, as the state leader of the party. 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