Akwa Ibom APC: Stop Akpabio’s Proxy From NEC Meeting – Akpanudoedehe

Immediate past national secretary of the defunct Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe has cautioned the party against allowing a factional chairman of the party in Akwa Ibom State, Stephen Ntukekpo, into Wednesday’s National Executive Committee NEC meeting.

Akpanudoedehe in a letter dated 19th April 2022 and signed by his lawyer, Tawo E. Tawo SAN reminded the party of the pending case against Ntukekpo at the Court of Appeal. He reminded the party that the appellate court had directed that status quo in the matter be maintained.

The letter addressed to the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu followed the decision of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court which in mid-March ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to issue a certificate of return to Ntukekpo as the Akwa Ibom State Chairman of the APC.

The judgment which implied that Augustine Ekanem who is backed by Akpanudoedehe and a number of stakeholders including Umana Umana, Chief Don Etiebet among others, was, however, appealed by that tendency at the Court of Appeal which ordered that the status quo be maintained till 17 May 2022.

However, the Senator Abdullahi Adamu led leadership of the party against expectation inaugurated Ntukekpo as chairman.

Tawo said Ntukekpo and the party are parties in the Appeal and therefore bound by the order of the Honourable Court of Appeal as it were.

“Thereafter, he (Mr. Stephen Leo Ntukekpo) ie. the 1st Respondent in the appeal proceeded to Akwa Ibom State to swear in some other people as what he called members of his Executive Council both at the State and Local Government levels, thereby further altering in a serial manner the status quo that was ordered to be maintained by the Court of Appeal.

“Our client further informed us and we verily believe him that the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party has been scheduled to hold on the 20th April 2022. Take notice therefore that the attendance of the meeting by the 1st Respondent (Mr. Stephen Leo Ntukekpo) parading himself as the Akwa Ibom State Executive Chairman of the party shall constitute a further serial breach and or noncompliance with the extant order of the Court of Appeal.

“We, therefore, advise against admitting him into the NEC meeting as doing otherwise would constitute further noncompliance and total disregard to the extant orders of the Court of Appeal. Be warned”, the letter stated in affirming the need to stop the factional Akwa Ibom APC chairman from the NEC meeting.

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