Officials of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom State who on Monday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party PDP have raised the alarm over an alleged attack sponsored by the members of their former party, APC, who were disgruntled over the defection.
In a statement jointly signed by the former state, chapter and ward officers of the APC, and read by Joseph Amah on Tuesday at the PDP’s secretariat on Four lane, Uyo, the defectors said no amount of threat and attack would compel them to go back to the APC.
Amah explained that prior to Monday’s defection rally, they got series of phone calls and threat text messages, warning them of the dangers of their defection plan, but been tired of political oppression and unending impunity practised in APC, they decided to ignore such threats.
Buttressing their claims further, Amah said, “Thereafter, as our people were heading home joyously to share the good news of redemption with their kith and kin, they were molested on the road by hoodlums sponsored by the APC.
“In Nsit Atai, the former chapter chairman’s vehicle was attacked and his tyres destroyed. In Ibesikpo Asutan, Eket and IkotEkpene, it was the same attack, APC stalwarts were harassed and intimidated.
“This ugly situation is most reprehensible and must be totally condemned.”
The group who cited the defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio to the APC as one of their various reasons for leaving the party warned that if something bad happens to them, he (Akpabio) as well as other stalwarts in APC should be held responsible.
The statement by partly reads, ” this press conference is to alert the entire public that if anything bad happens to us, Chief Godswill Akpabio and others should be held responsible.
“Having not yielded to their pressures to remain in their evil political coven, they have resorted to threats and violence.
“In the days ahead, we will expose the contents of the play book of the APC and how they hope to overrun the state with federal might. But like we said yesterday, we reiterate that, federal might will meet with unit might.”
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