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Supreme Court judgement on Ikot Ekpene APC 2023 Senatorial ticket– Don Etiebet reacts

…Says Abak-5 will vote only for a candidate from Abak federal Constituency

Thank you Uduakabasi Ikpat for your enquiry on today’s Supreme Court verdict on the senatorial candidacy of Akwa Ibom Northwest Senatorial District, which declared Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio the candidate.

We, in the District do not accept the verdict because of the inherent inconsistences in the run off to the primaries in our layman’s view but we fully respect the judgement having come from a court and the Supreme Court for that matter.

Although this point was not adduced in the Court, we from the Senatorial District have since resolved that it is the turn of Abak-5 Zone of the District and in particular, the Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika Federal Constituency to produce the Senator this time around since all the other three Federal Constituencies in the Senatorial District have produced senators several times.

In deed, the Federal Constituency of Ikot Ekpene where Senator Godswill Akpabio comes from has produced five senators since 1960 or three senators since 1999 including Godswill Akpabio himself, whereas the Abak Federal Constituency has produced none since 1960. That is why we in the District uninamously nominated DIG Udom Ekpoudom rtd from Etim Ekpo LGA of Abak Federal Constituency to contest under our great APC banner.

Senator Godswill Akpabio did not participate in that Senatorial Primary monitored by INEC but having failed in his Presidential bid he was pursuing at the time of the Senatorial Primary, he rushed back at a later date to have a nocturnal primary not monitored by INEC to declare himself as the senatorial candidate.

If Senator Godswill Akpabio has any feeling of comeradeship, brotherliness and love for others except his inordinate inert political power mongering, he should have considered giving this Abak Federal Constituency which has not tested the senate since 1960 the chance to go unimpeded just like others from that Constituency who had surrendered for him for love and for the interest of the District. But now he wants to monopolize the position just like some African leaders who would rather stay put in their positions for selfish reasons if they could muzzle themselves through for life.

However, it is the resolve of the ABAK-5 Zone of the Senatorial District, where I come from, and its allies in Ikot Ekpene and Ini/Ikono Federal Constituencies to support any ABAK Federal Constituency Candidate to win the election. It is their turn and it is just. Thank you.

(C) Chief Don Obot Etiebet, CON.
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