A’Ibom APC Peeved By PDP

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By UbongAbasi Ise

The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has been incensed by what it sees as the brazen stealing of intellectual property of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Obong Nsima Ekere, by the present state administration under the rivaled Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.
Briefing newsmen in Uyo on Monday, the State Chapter Chairman of the APC, Mr. Ini Okopido, expressed worries over what he alleged as Governor Udom Emmanuel’s desperation to adopt wholesale the Obong Nsima Ekere’s blueprint as contained in the manifesto titled, New Vision For Our Collective Prosperity,  while pointing to how Mr. Emmanuel rushed to inaugurate a taskforce for the reactivation of the Akwa Palm Industries  in Esit Eket, some, project enunciated by Nsima Ekere’s in his manifesto.

Okopido stressed that it was shameful for Governor Udom Emmanuel to inaugurate a taskforce for the reactivation of the project without due acknowledgement of the owner of the idea.
He said few weeks ago when the manifesto was unveiled, Obong Nsima Ekere had declared that he would ensure the immediate reactivation of the Akwa Palm Industries as one of his priorities within the first one hundred days in office as Governor in order to open up thousands of direct and indirect jobs to  Akwa Ibom people.
He further slammed Mr. Emmanuel for copying Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari’s pet project, Future Assured Initiative, into his campaign arrangement saying the governor is bereft of ideas.
“Only last week, our attention was drawn to the fact that he has also started using the slogan, coined and authored by First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, Future Assured, as his campaign slogan. While I will not speak on behalf of the First Lady, because she has very qualified assistants, including lawyers, I believe it is important to investigate the rightful owner of the copyright of “Future Assured”. He has no ideas. He has no shame. He has no moral authority to continue to preside over the affairs of Akwa Ibom State. And come March 2, 2019, Akwa Ibom people will send him packing,”Okopido said.
The APC Chairman was to express dismay over the recent damaging activities perpetrated by Udom Emmanuel’s Divine Mandate Campaign Organisation against his party.
On the recent controversies generated on the social media, Mr. Ini Okopido accused the Publicity Secretary of   People Democratic Party, PDP, Comrade Ini Ememobong , for sponsoring the creation of Fake social media accounts to ruin the image of APC in the state.
“A few days ago, our attention was drawn to the screenshot of a WhatsApp group, ‘Udom Till 2023,’ where Ini Ememobong, the State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, instructed his people to create a fake APC Account, using key leaders of our party, the APC, to create a fake, dubious and criminal conversation, purporting our party leaders to be engaged in criminal activity,” he said.
Okopido further referred to another screenshot of the fake WhatsApp group chat where the PDP agents claimed that APC leaders gave NANS president N600,000 to protest against the state government, describing such action as “pure criminality.”
He called on the Inspector General of Police and appropriate law enforcement agencies to investigate Ini Ememobong in order to ascertain whose directives he was implementing through his unfortunate Whatsapp directive.

©The Sensor Newspaper

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