Defenders of Akwa Ibom APC (DAIA) has faulted the inauguration, on Tuesday, of a new chairman for the Akwa Ibom chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC by the new national chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
The group in a statement expressed shock at the deliberate overlook of a court injunction restraining the party from recognizing and inaugurating Obong Stephen Ntukekpo as the chairman of the party.
“What has happened is that the leadership of the party has started on the path of illegality and against the desire of the mainstream of the party,” DIAA coordinator, Ibok Essein said in a statement.
The group said that: “So long as there existed an injunction against the inauguration of Ntukekpo, it behoved the party’s leadership to have waited for the judicial process to run its course in order not to infringe on the right of everyone concerned and that is why we are especially pained by this development.”
Expressing concerns that elements from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, were dictating the situation in the party, DAIA added:
“We are concerned that the godfather of the Ntukekpo is the minister of Niger Delta, Senator Godswill Akpabio, a man who as governor so much destroyed the progressives in Akwa Ibom.”
The group stated: “It is unfortunate that he has manourvered himself into our party and is now destroying our party from inside.”
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