APC has been banished from Akwa Ibom, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom state has described the recent remarks by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as mere distant hisses from a political party which the electorate in the state had banished through the potent tool of successive electoral defeats.

In a release signed by Borono Bassey, secretary of the state chapter of the PDP, the party said the APC only visits the state during gubernatorial elections.

“On Monday, August 24, 2020, the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State – the party which our people had successfully banished from our land through the potent tool of successive electoral defeats, sent out a distant hiss by way of a Press Release in their bid to respond to Governor Udom Emmanuel’s snipe at Senator Ita Enang,” the statement read.

“The stopgap APC Publicity Secretary in that sloppy release, tried to earn his keep in his effort to comfort and convince Senator Ita Enang that the Governor’s remark about him was of no moment.

“In his futile attempt to cover the sterling strides made by Governor Udom Emmanuel in the management of the COVID-19 Pandemic with their evil bushel, he described the achievements and accolades-worthy management of the Governor as an after-thought.

“Shocking as APC’s thoughts on the impressive management of the Pandemic by the Governor might be, we however understand that for a party like the APC that only visits the state during Gubernatorial Elections, it is herculean for them to keep up with the goings-on in Akwa Ibom. All they rely on as channels of information must definitely be the subjective reports from their spies marauding as media aides to non-existent office holders.

“It is on record that on June 8, 2020, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, – parastatal under the APC’s Federal Government, had, after an assessment visit to the isolation centre built by Governor Udom Emmanuel, described it as the best. (Please Find link to the story here: https://guardian.ng/news/ncdc-approves-testing-covid-19-cases-in-akwa-ibom/) Now, the only sensible deduction that could be made from this is that a facility built as an afterthought could not have earned such an enviable commendation. But then, logic and rational thinking and the APC in Akwa Ibom State are strange bed fellows and have absolutely nothing in common.

“As a party and for the sake of humanity, we have herein taken up the task of rebooting the fried brains of members of the APC. It is also appropriate to remind them that Governor Udom’s visionary strides in government has been attracting commendations from its inception.

“On Senator Ita Enang, every Akwa Ibom person knows that Ita Enang does not have the locus standi to talk about Good governance and accountable leadership. For a man who received billions of Naira as funds for constituency projects but had nothing to show for it, it is the height of shamelessness and hypocrisy for Ita Enang to make disparaging remarks on the same Governor who has erected strong pillars for job creation in diverse sectors of the Akwa Ibom State economy.”