All is not well with the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom state as the immediate past governor of the state and the current Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has berated Governor Emmanuel Udom over alleged neglect of his Senatorial District in the development agenda of his administration.
Akpabio who subtly threatened to withdraw his support for the Governor ahead of the 2019 general elections lamented that his senatorial district, Akwa Ibom North West, has been marginalised by the present government because the projects there had not been completed while new ones had not been initiated.
He made this known on Wednesday at the annual get-together organised by the Deputy Governor, Chief Moses Ekpo, to fete the people of Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District at the Independence Hall, Abak. He said he would only endorse the governors reelection bid if his policies and programmes are not discriminatory against his district.
“2018 is less than one year to election, all is not well oooh; don’t allow anybody to deceive you that all is well. If the hotel in Ikot Ekpene rots after so much money had been expended, would that be a good thing?
“That road from Uyo to Ikot Ekpene, is still the way it was. In the 2018 budget, what is the percentage sum provided for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District?
“My job is to say the truth because if at this level I cannot say the truth, then I am not doing well. So, please I want us to start the hotel because when the Commissioner for Works addressed the youths in August, he assured them that the hotel would be opened in December, it will soon decay if an urgent intervention is not given to the facility.
“Please, let us check the budget to know what has been earmarked for that place. I am not interested in what I did and what I did not do. I am only interested in what I am going to do.
“The truth is that Godswill Akpabio expects us to set our path straight so that we can take one route, even when you are going for communion, you must be in a state of grace, so let us have something from the senatorial district to use in talking about election; to use in convincing the people to stand by us. We are in opposition, we don’t have government, we don’t have police, we don’t have INEC,” he said.
