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In a letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Akwa Ibom State’s All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Petroleum (Gas) Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, and party state chairman Mr. Stephen Ntukekpo of plotting to hand the party over to the state’s governor, Umo Eno, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Elder Okokon James, Hon. Peter Ibanga, and Chief Victor Affiah, who represent the state’s Uyo, Eket, and Ikot Ekpene senatorial districts, signed an open letter tagged  “The Worrisome State of the APC in Akwa Ibom State: A Call for Your Urgent Intervention,” on Monday urging the president to step in and make sure the party is revived in Akwa Ibom.

According to the elders, who have been with the party since its founding, they have never witnessed the “kind of selfishness, greed, betrayal, and treachery” that is currently occurring in the Akwa Ibom party.

The letter, in part, states: “What the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, is doing to the teeming and die-hard members of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State is the height of betrayal of confidence and treachery against the party on whose platform he became the Senate President. History and posterity will not be kind to him and all those he is using as instruments to kill the party.”

They pointed out that in separate forums, the minister and the party chairman had both claimed that the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, had ordered them to destroy the state’s party in order to give the PDP a smooth path to victory in the 2027 elections in return for the PDP’s backing of the Senate President’s bid for a third term.

They lamented Senator Akpabio’s inability to recognize that Umo Eno would never join the APC or be dedicated to President Tinubu’s goal of winning a second term.

They added: “We want to assure Mr. President that he won’t have party members to receive him when he comes to the state next year to campaign if something urgent is not done to revive and strengthen the party in the state.

“The soul and spirit of the party in the state have been sold to the PDP government, and as a result, party members are gearing up to join the upcoming coalition of opposition to your second-term ambition.”

The APC chieftains raised misgivings that a party that produced the Senate President and a minister is now dead in their state, reminding the President that if nothing is done promptly, it would be impossible to organize party members for him during the 2027 elections in the state.

“Should members of the party in the state move en masse to the upcoming coalition of opposition elements opposed to your second-term ambition, hold the Senate President and the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, responsible.

“The Senate President cannot cough because he has so weakened the APC structure in the state that he is afraid his re-election bid in 2027 may be a mirage without the support of the governor and PDP structures,” the letter added.

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