‘Akwa Ibom APC Drifting Towards Chaos’

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, Chief Edet Isong, has expressed dismay over what he termed, “the party’s retrogression wrought by leaders and federal government appointees who are not bothered about how the party and its faithful are faring.”
In a statement, Isong, a former Caretaker Chairman of Urue Offong Oruko Local Government Area, noted that “though it is painful to admit, the reality is that Akwa Ibom APC is being rendered unattractive by those entrusted with the responsibility of propagating the Next Level agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.”
According to him, “despite having over 30 federal government appointees from the state, most APC faithful in the state are shielded from benefiting from the dividends of the APC-led federal government at the centre.”
He added: “If we do not entrench initiatives and procedures in the party, make the party more inclusive, establish a foolproof reward system and propagate internal democracy, we will face a herculean task convincing Akwa Ibom populace to pitch their political tent in APC in 2023. And that would spell doom for our beloved party”.
On the ongoing lockdown ordered by government to checkmate the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic Chief Isong wondered why federal government appointees from Akwa Ibom State have failed to, on personal capacities, offer palliatives to the party faithful.
“The disbursement of federal government palliatives for Akwa Ibom is to be handled by the state government, but why have the federal government appointees refused to further forge synergy with the party faithful by reaching out to them at this trying moment? It is public knowledge that state government officials across the federation and federal government appointees in other states have offered succour to the populace”, he lamented.