Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a quit notice from the Akwa Ibom state Government House was yesterday sent to Governor Udom Emmamuel by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, describing the governor as “the easiest candidate to defeat.
” Enang, who made the declaration at a media briefi ng in reaction to the plan of the ruling party in the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to make Udom its consensus candidate for the election, said the “poor performance of the governor has already made him vulnerable for easy defeat by any candidate that may be paraded” by his own party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“Th at Governor Udom Emmanuel has been adopted as sole candidate by PDP makes him the easiest candidate to defeat.
“APC will not believe in endorsement; the party wants more people to contest for the party ticket, believing that the party will choose the best if more people are given opportunity to contest,” he said.
Speaking on the 2017 AKISAN convention, Enang said the state delegation boycotted the event because it did not have a good account to give to Akwa Ibom indigenes in the Diaspora.
“I don’t agree that it was for protocol reasons that the Akwa Ibom state government boycotted the event.
I think they were afraid of answering questions from Akwa Ibom people in the Diaspora.
“Th e Acting President was invited to speak on what the federal government has done on education and other areas of social services.
Th e federal government responded and gave an account.
NDDC was invited and the MD went and gave an account.
It remained the Akwa Ibom state government to give an account.
“Having come and not participated in the convention, the entire delegation that went there should refund the money spent on estacode because it was the money of the state.
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