One time Peoples Democratic Party chairman in Akwa Ibom state, Chief Otu Ita-Toyo has accused the immediate past Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, of deviating from the ‘power sharing’ arrangement which was initiated by the state’s traditional chiefs in 1989, by imposing Udom Emmanuel as governor.
Alleging that Akpabio destroyed the arrangement that brought peace to Akwa Ibom, he faulted the decision of the present Senate Minority Leader to pick his successor from the Onna Local Government Area which had produced a governor before.
Ita-Toyo, who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, explained during a programme on Planet FM that he decided to join the APC in order to save Akwa Ibom-South senatorial district and the state from perdition.
He maintained that Akpabio organised a town hall meeting that was deceptive, stressing that Oro ethnic nationality in Akwa Ibom-South senatorial district was the ideal zone to produce the governor.
In Ita-Toyo’s words, “I decided to leave the PDP only recently when I discovered that the party’s irredeemable cabal had in the past eight years hijacked the party and deviated from the ideals upon which it was founded. The cabal started in the post-Victor Attah PDP period. They are a group of people who seize the instrument of authority, seize the instrument of cohesion and then deal with people in a manner that is completely and totally insensitive and undemocratic.
“Based on the circumstances, defecting to the APC was the intelligent thing to do as Akwa Ibom people must be prepared to reintegrate themselves into the mainstream of Nigerian politics. All those who gave the PDP life have joined the APC in a bid to redeem the state.”
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