The Senator Godswill Akpabio for Common Good, (SGACG) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the acting National Chairman of APC to call Etiebet and his cohorts to order to desist from creating confusion in Akwa Ibom State and allow a democratic process to take place.
The group described Chief Don Etiebet as a half-forgotten politician who is trying to destroy the All Progressives Congress, (APC) in Akwa Ibom State.
The National Coordinator of SGACG, Dr. Jibril Tafida, stated this in a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.
Dr. Tafida, who was reacting to what he called a sham meeting of the Akwa Ibom State APC led by Chief Don Etiebet. He described their action as a deliberate gang-up to destroy and create uncertainty in the state chapter of the party, adding, ” Etiebet has no constitutional power nor mandate to decide or attempt to impose the governorship candidate for the party.”
According to the statement, ” Etiebet has contested elections and endorsed many candidates, but he and his sponsored candidates lost woefully and miserably. Between 2006 and 2007 when Etiebet ran for elective office, he came 5th in the election.
“In 2015 he lost again and supported Umanah against Akpabio’s candidate and was beaten mercilessly. In 2019 he supported Nsima Ekere and hijacked the APC leadership in the state, the result was betrayal, sectional conspiracy with PDP to stop Akpabio’s Senate Presidency ambition thereby foisting defeat on APC in an election APC clearly won.
“Known for backstabbing, he took the Chairmanship of ANPP with 9 sitting Governors but after secret collaboration with the incumbent PDP President Obasanjo, ANPP was left with only 2 governors on his exit. He was also a one-time founder of a political party – NCPC – during late Gen. Sani Abacha’s military administration.
“True to his nature, he abandoned the supporters of the party nationwide a night before the election to pitch his tent with NRC to the chagrin of Nigerian politicians with integrity
“Today, he is surprisingly claiming to have endorsed a governorship candidate and we wonder how such shenanigans would ever work in a state of enlightened voters like Akwa Ibom.
“In fact, even when he contested against Senator Akpabio in 2011 and came a miserable 4th in the primaries, the margin of his defeat was a deafening rejection of his brand of politics.
“It is ridiculous that he assumes he could succeed with his gambit and attention-seeking project, to actualise Amaechi’s misplaced ambition as a stepping stone,” the statement stressed.
The SGACG National Coordinator stressed that truths, must be told so that innocent Akwa Ibom members won’t fall victim to this empty new charade.
“We also call on the good people of Akwa Ibom in particular and the Niger Delta in general to ignore the rantings of Don Etiebet, who was already half-forgotten politically before this inglorious mis-step,” he concluded.
