By Nse Peter
Senator Etang Umoyo who represented Eket
Senatorial District in the ill-fated third republic may have joined the growing
number of politicians from the Eket Senatorial District jostling for 2015 PDP
governorship ticket in Akwa Ibom State.
Etang Umoyo who through his vantage position
as chairman, Eket Senatorial District Forum has been one of the main
campaigners for the zoning of the governorship in Akwa Ibom to Eket Senatorial
District in 2015. He is from Esit Eket Local Government Area.
A source who hinted THINK AKWA IBOM!
about Umoyo’s ambition didn’t want his name mention because, according to him,
the former senator is quietly consulting party leaders for now, and that he has
not been authorized to speak on the matter.
“Yes, I can assure you, he will. He will
run (for governor). He is well qualified, he has the experience and the
goodwill of the people of Eket Senatorial District,” said the source,
confidently.
In February, 2012, during an interview
with Vanguard newspaper, when asked if Eket Senatorial District has a candidate that
will be generally acceptable to the entire Akwa Ibom State, Etang Umoyo
reportedly said, “no, we do not have a candidate.
That will create a very serious problem. An activity that is going to take
place in 2015, you don’t bring out a candidate and brandish. It is in the
nature of this business that that candidate will be killed before then,”
Apart from Etang Umoyo, other notable
politicians from Eket Senatorial District in the race for the Akwa Ibom
governorship in 2015 are the current commissioner for Ministry of Local
Government & Chieftaincy Affairs, Barr. Effiong Abia, the former vice
chairman of PDP in the state, Bishop Samuel Akpan, the immediate past deputy
governor of the state, Obong Nsima Ekere and the current senator representing
the district, Mrs. Helen Esuene. Others are: Bar. Assam Assam and Okpolum Etteh
who is currently representing Esit Eket/Ibeno state constituency in the Akwa
Ibom State House of Assembly.
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