Governor Godswill Akpabio |
By Nse Peter
The Chapter chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area, Chief Sunny Ibanga has warned other
politicians who are not in support of Akpabio’s succession plan for the 2015 governorship
election in the state not to visit Ikot Ekpene for campaign, Peace Letters has reported.Peace Letter, a pro-government community newspaper in Akwa Ibom State, reports in its Vol. 2. No. 25 edition of Tuesday, September 16, 2014 that Chief Sunny Ibanga issued the warning while he was addressing some politicians in Ikot Ekpene recently.
The paper said the chapter chairman viewed it as an act of disloyalty and disrespect to Godswill Akpabio for politicians in Ikot Ekpene to bring governorship aspirants for consultation in the area because, according him, the governor hails from there.
Sunny Ibanga reportedly asked that politicians in the area
should first seek for the governor’s approval before bringing in any
governorship aspirant for political consultation in Ikot Ekpene.
“The governor is from Ikot Ekpene Federal Constituency and
we will stand by him to produce a successor. Ikot Ekpene is not a free for all
political environment,” Peace Letters
quoted Chief Sunny Ibanga as having said.
It could be recalled that Chief Sunny Ibanga’s name had
featured prominently in the media reports of the March 2011 political violence
that claimed several lives in Ikot Ekpene when supporters of both PDP and the
then Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) clashed in the area. A news report in the
Vanguard said the then chairman of ACN
in the state, Mr. Aniekan Akpan had accused Sunny Ibanga as being one of the
sponsors of the alleged attack of ACN supporters during the mayhem in Ikot
Ekpene.
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