Akpabio’s Request For Igini’s Replacement Shameless – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Akwa Ibom State has described as shameless the demand by Senator Godswill Akpabio for Mr. Mike Igini, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC in the state to be replaced in the court ordered rerun election in Essien Udim Local Government Area.

While mocking the Niger Delta Affairs minister for running away from a predictable defeat in the Senate rerun election, the party alleged a plot by Akpabio to use the judiciary to put the rerun election in suspense.

The PDP’s response followed Senator Akpabio’s decision to withdraw himself from rerun election in Essien Udim.

The PDP’s response issued by the State Publicity Secretary, SPS while dismissing the call for the replacement of Igini said:

“We urge the Independent National Electoral Commission to treat the withdrawal letter of Senator Akpabio as a concession of defeat and hold that APC has no candidate in the forthcoming Senatorial rerun due next year.

“Additionally, we ask the commission to ignore and discountenance the shameless demand for the removal of Mike Igini as REC. This call is ill-motivated as he wants REC that will allow him the liberty to concoct results in Essien Udim during the rerun, as that is the only way he can win elections there.”

“On the funny claim that he has a patriotic task to perform at the Federal Executive Council as Minister, which is why he wants to withdraw from the race, the question is, when did he realize this duty which he claims he owes the Niger Delta? Why did he not withdraw before the Appeal court judgment?

“If the Court of Appeal had granted the reliefs he sought for, would he have still withdrawn?

“Our party seriously frowns at the clowning attempts by Senator Akpabio to derail the electoral process in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District, as we have on good authority that he intends to use the judicial process to prevent the conduct of the rerun, by institutions court actions to compel INEC to accept his purported withdrawal- this suit he intends to drag up to the Supreme Court if he loses. “Senator Akpabio, who once boasted that he couldn’t lose an election should have been excited as he was earlier, to show the world that he cannot lose an election in his local government area. Why is he afraid of going for an election in his native Essien Udim?”

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