By Solomon Johnny
From hindsight, I knew "APC", Akwa Ibom State chapter, will commit
this very serious blunder. I just read that the party had zoned her
governorship ticket to Eket Senatorial District and by implication
therefore, shall not want aspirants from any other senatorial District
to vie for the ticket
My immediate question to them is this:
1. Does APC constitution provide for or recognize zoning? If it does, why did the party set aside such provision and nominate Obong Umana Okon Umana in 2015 as her gubernatorial candidate?
I shall address these points in the days ahead. When I'm done, it would have been seen that those who sat to purportedly zone the governorship ticket of the party to Eket Senatorial District are not seeing beyond the wads of Naira notes and the contracts Obong Nsima Ekere has promised to give them if he gets the ticket of the party.
The decision to zone the ticket to Eket is not well thought out. It is very shallow and will make APC a prey to the PDP in 2019. APC cannot sing the same tune with the PDP while she hopes to sack the same party in the next election.
Zoning is a PDP ideology unknown to the APC constitution and the rule cannot change mid way possibly because some new intake into the party are jaundiced in their assessment of the founding members of the party.
A bird at hand is worth thousands in the bush. I don't think that Eket Senatorial District will dump Governor Udom Emmanuel who they already have on the seat, to chase after another candidate.
It is very clear that APC needs a lot of work to get so many things right.
1. Does APC constitution provide for or recognize zoning? If it does, why did the party set aside such provision and nominate Obong Umana Okon Umana in 2015 as her gubernatorial candidate?
I shall address these points in the days ahead. When I'm done, it would have been seen that those who sat to purportedly zone the governorship ticket of the party to Eket Senatorial District are not seeing beyond the wads of Naira notes and the contracts Obong Nsima Ekere has promised to give them if he gets the ticket of the party.
The decision to zone the ticket to Eket is not well thought out. It is very shallow and will make APC a prey to the PDP in 2019. APC cannot sing the same tune with the PDP while she hopes to sack the same party in the next election.
Zoning is a PDP ideology unknown to the APC constitution and the rule cannot change mid way possibly because some new intake into the party are jaundiced in their assessment of the founding members of the party.
A bird at hand is worth thousands in the bush. I don't think that Eket Senatorial District will dump Governor Udom Emmanuel who they already have on the seat, to chase after another candidate.
It is very clear that APC needs a lot of work to get so many things right.
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