The Most Senior Officer, representing Akwa Ibom state in the National Working Committee of the APC has condemned the suspension letters, issued by the state secretary of the APC Effiong Etuk, as misnomer and futility aimed at further factionalising the party or capable of creating violence in the party seeking a rerun in court.
In a statement made in Asaba where she is on a mission trying to reconcile, Delta state factional party leaders,Mrs Racheal Akpabio ordered that status quo, be maintained in the state,as the secretary of the party has no such powers according to the party constitution.
The APC constitution only provides for suspension of state officer to be done only by the National Working committee of the party after due investigations and report, by the zonal officers and a fact finding mission conducted. The woman leader declared the suspension or replacement of any state officer without recourse, to the constitution as null and void.
It must be noted that the said, Effiong Etuk has been involved in several pretense and destabilising role and making money, is his first love and is currently involved in deceitfully substituting APC officers, with PDP who offered strong monetary inducement.
The perfidy of the State secretary and pursuit of money is said to knows no bounds. In the run up to the two conventions of the party in Abuja and the Primaries in Lagos, the State secretary is said to have routinely violated Article A (xi) by altering the delegates list to reflect only those with whom they had agreement to share whatever the Party advanced, to cover the hotel and transport expenses . Non delegates were usually the substitutes in those cases. On other occasions the State secretary never bothered to pay the delegates at all. He simply converted and stole the monies contrary to Article (vii) of the Constitution of the Party 2014 as amended.
During the Party Convention in December 2014 where Akwa Ibom State delegates were paid 11,160,000.00 (eleven million, one hundred and sixty thousand naira only) to augment their hotel, feeding and transport expenses, no delegate ever received the money. It was simply criminally converted by the State secretary for his personal use.
He has similarly converted N22, 000,000.00(twenty two million naira only) being the State’s share from the sales of Nomination Forms.
He has suddenly become the owner of several storey buildings and jeeps and is currently being investigated over a petition by the chapter chairmen of Ikot ekpene senatorial district over several deals, including collecting sums ranging from 500 Naira to 1000 Naira for membership card and 100,000Naira respectively from desperate politician seeking to be political leaders when congress is yet to hold.
Compromising several electoral positions by sending out bulk SMS for the agents to withdraw from the election fields and collecting money ranging from N500,000.00 to N2 Million naira each, to enlist the PDP stakeholders who desperately wanted to meet with then President –elect Gen Muhammadu Buhari, and which visit eventually occurred on Thursday the 7th of May. The PDP members had, hoped to exploit the visit to lobby for positions in the new central government and paid as much as the secretary demanded.

The Chapters and other functionaries of the party in Akwa Ibom State are said to have only heard of N200,000,000.00(two hundred million naira only) given to States that do not have APC governors for instance but have heard of no such declaration by the State secretary.

The State secretary prefers to work with the PDP in Akwa Ibom State rather than the APC organs contrary to Article A(ii) of the constitution of the APC and thus have completely wipe out the party in the State and he is currently on the payroll of the Senator representing Uyo senatorial district who is from his area.
A Phone call to the APC Vice Chairman, South –South ZONE Chief Hillard Eta confirmed the party position that no changes or suspension are accepted in the party till congresses are held.