By Emeka Samuel
A PDP chieftain and former National Publicity Secretary Senator Aniette Okon has condemned Vice President Yemi Osibanjo over his recent claims that votes meant for APC in the last National elections in the state were stolen.
Osibanjo had on Monday during a thank you visit to the APC in the state also assured the APC in the state that efforts wkould be made to recover their stolen mandate adding that bit was impossible for Senator Godswill Akpabio to lose election in Akwa Ibom.
But Okon described the Vice President’e utterances as carlous and a disrespect tohe people of Amwa Ibom adding that he has been ignorant of the current state of affairs in the politics of the state and advised him to rafther look for solutions to why his party lost elections in his Ward.
“When did he know that there was a stolen mandate here. The stolen mandate is in Sokoto, Bornu, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina. Let him go there and show preachment
For him to come here and descrate the temple of truth by claiming that there was a stolen mandate shows complete disrespect to he values of the people bot Akwa Ibom state.
“If he has nothing to say he should keep quiet and stop raising the tempers of decent people. He cannot call himself a pastor and a professor of law and there are descrations and breaches of the basic principles of common conduct.
“When we are talking of the country burning he is busy parading and pretending as if he is an expert in anything.Rather than talk of protecting the interest of those who have been murdered or those who have suffered carnage in Benue he said we should return to prayers. What prayer is Osibanjo trully capable of.
“They are talking about threats and destruction even in that day of election an INEC official had the gut be to say that there was a bomb blast and after two hours the people came out to vote. Were these people animals or skeletons because we have the evidence that there was no such massive turnout anywhere.
On the fact that it was impossible for Akpabio to lose elections in Akwa Ibom, Okon said the former Gorvernor has “lost his glamour and charisma since he joined APC in his desperate attempt to be protected from his numerous sins”
“Is Akpabio better than Saraki that lost electikns and he left peacefully and heaven has not fallen. That somebody lost 8 out of 10 local governments and is still talking about stolen votes is ridiculous.
“The number of accredited voters in the card reader were 14,641. Out of that you claim to have 105, 000 votes. Are you a magician? Less than 15000 people were accredited and you say people that voted were over 100,000. I mean it is shameful and a monumental fraud in embrace of APC
“Oshiomhole is from Edo state, and the sitting governor is APC, yet PDP won in the state, so why is he not questioning the outcome of the election. The only thing is that Akpabio has been elevated higher than his competence.
“The Vice President and the leaders of APC in an effort to massage the ego of Akpabio should know the dangers it means to us because they are encouraging breakdown of law and order. All i know is that the fate of Akwa Ibom state will be determined by the Akwa Ibom people.” He said.
“I have in good authority that the vice president arrived here with three national directors of inec and supposed to be deployed to police the Rec. We are not worried about about that so fats the policing will not mean influencing wrongly or clamping down on the will of the people as expressed in their votes. They are welcomed.
“But the desperation shown and displayed in the last few days by the Apc over the election in aks tells us a lot. It shows that they are only interested in the our resources and we will bring an end to this.” He said.
In renewed calls for the redeployment of the State Resident Electoral Could Commissioner Barr Mike Igini Okon said the PDP is not afraid of a new REC and would accept anyone sent provided the persin would not bend the rules.
“Igini has been resolute and dicplined in protecting the electoral guidelines and pelople like him should be made the chairman of INEC but we will accept any new REC provided the person is coming on a mission of counting the votes that have been properly cast by the people. So we don’t care who the REC is provided you are doing what is right.
“But if it is the one that will come with an already written result then the person should write his will before he comes.”
He blamed Akpabio for the overheating the polity in the state with his careless utterances and vowed that the PDP would never accept him back into he party if he would consider ditching the APC.
