We will never go back to PDP Apc Elders in Akwa ibom

We’ll never go back to PDP

–Nsima Ekere, Otuekong Jackson, others

react to PDP false propaganda

 

Akwa Ibom State elders and leaders of thought have dismissed as arrant nonsense the baseless and false propaganda being promoted on the social media that some of their members are about to join or return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. Contacted for reactions to the speculation that they have concluded plans to take up membership of or return to the PDP, one of the leaders, Otuekong Sonny Jackson, who is the political leader of Uyo Senatorial District, described the internet rumour as a joke taken too far. He warned that his name should not be associated with the PDP in any circumstance.

 

Mr Nsima Ekere, former deputy governor of the state who was also mentioned in the rumoured plan to return to the PDP, was emphatic in his disavowal of any plan to go back to the PDP. “With the impunity that hallmarks the affairs of the PDP and the humiliation suffered by the G22, of which I was the leader, at the hand of the former ruling party during the governorship primary in the state, there is no way I can go back to the PDP,” Ekere said. “I recall that I was one of the leaders of the state who spoke at the grand reception for Umana in Uyo on 24 October after the tribunal judgment, welcoming the opportunity for Akwa Ibom people to freely choose their governor. I stand by every word I spoke on that occasion.”

 

Also reacting to the speculation of a plan by members of the state APC to defect to the PDP, state chairman of the APC, Dr Amadu Attai said there was no basis for any leader of the APC, or any conscientious leader in the state to move to the PDP. “What is there in the state PDP for anyone to go for?” Dr Attai asked. “They have only a few days left in power.” He dismissed the speculation as fiction.

 

Attai said very soon Udom and Akpabio will be given the Wada treatment, translated to mean they will be booted out the way APC recently dislodged Governor Ibrahim Wada in Kogi State.

 

There has been a steady flood of false propaganda by the PDP against the state APC in the last few weeks. Experts in organisational psychology say the unceasing flow of false stories from the PDP comes from a sense of siege which the party feels as it loses grounds on all fronts.