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| Mr. Udom Emmanuel |
Barr. Enoidem maintained that after the delegates’ primaries that took place on the 1st of November, 2014, an appeal panel which was constituted for the delegates election sat for four days beginning from November 3rd 2014, and none of the so-called aggrieved aspirants filed a complaint about the delegates primaries.
Enoidem said it was then absurd that an aspirant who saw
nothing wrong with the delegates list that was used for three previous rounds
of primaries namely, House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senatorial
primaries, would now turn around to fault the same list in the gubernatorial
primaries.
“You can see that the aspirant who could not convinced any
delegate to vote for him in his own local government area, and having waited
for 37 days after the delegates primaries, now wants to waste the party’s time
in a court process that can best be described as speculative and academic.
The Commissioner for Special Duties said it was now a common
phenomenon for certain Akwa Ibom politicians to use the court to masturbate
their ego, adding that the case in from whatever point of view, lacks value to
stand the test of time.
Barr Enoidem, a former State treasurer of the PDP, said that
under the electoral act as it is an exclusive authority of a political party to
produce its candidates for elections and as such the court lacks jurisdiction
to interfere in an internal pre-election issue.
Similarly, the Chairman of the Media and Publicity
sub-committee of the Udom Emmanuel Campaign Organisation Mr Aniekan Umanah has
urged millions of Udom’s Supporters not to lose any bit of sleep over the said
court injunction on Mr Udom Emmanuel’s candidature.
In a telephone conversation with our reporter, Umanah
maintained that nobody had the power to reverse the decision of the State
Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party which through its statutory and adhoc
delegates elected Mr Udom Emmanuel in an exercise that was transmitted live
both on terrestrial, cable and online media to the global audience.
He said that process
that led to the emergence of Mr Emmanuel’s emergence was very clear and
transparent in line with the PDP electoral guidelines.
“As was clearly seen at the Akwa Ibom International Stadium
on the 8th of December, the Bola Adebowale-led Electoral Panel instituted by
the National Working Committee of the PDP, painstakingly conducted a process
that did not bar any of the 25 aspirants of the PDP from contesting, and since
one of them has won, it behooves on others as loyal party men to support him in
the general elections.”
Also commenting in the same vein, Arc Ufot Ebong the State
coordinator of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN and a personal friend
of Mr Uom Emmanuel described the court injunction as frivolous and speculative.
He assured that Udom remains the Candidate of the Party and
is on course to be the next governor of the State come 2015.
Source: Press Release
from Mr. Essien Ndueso, Personal Assistant on Media to Gov. Godswill Akpabio
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