DISSOLUTION OF THE STATE WORKING COMMITTEE OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) IN AKWA IBOM STATE

27th January 2017

The National Chairman,
All Progressives Congress (APC),
National Secretariat,
Abuja,

DISSOLUTION OF THE  STATE WORKING COMMITTEE OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) IN AKWA IBOM STATE

We, the undersigned State Executives, Chapter Exco, and Ward Exco of the All Progressives Congress (hereinafter called ‘the Party’)  in Akwa Ibom State, representing all the Chapters of  the Party in the State, had carried out a thorough appraisal of all the fledgling  operations of the Akwa Ibom  State Working Committee  of the Party, hereinafter called ‘the State Exco’. As early as 2014, we had acquainted the highest functionaries of our Party with the odious, destructive, and intractable problems bedeviling our great Party in the State and threatening to snuff out its life. We however never received any correspondence in response to our complaints. Consequently, so much confusion has rocked our dear Party today in Akwa Ibom State, to the extent that the Party is now an object of mockery before other political Parties, and the general public.  This situation today violates Article 21 (A) (ii) of our Constitution. 
Permit us to intimate you in as much sensible detail as we can, of the destruction that has impacted our Party, as well as list the enemies within, and authors of the confusion.

The leadership of the APC in Akwa Ibom State is sick. The principal actors in this regard are: The State Chairman (Amadu Atai); the State Secretary (Effiong Etok) ‘aka Charles Taylor’; and the entire Exco of the Party. We wish to inform you that these people have sacrificed the dignity and ideology of the Party on the altar of their lust and unbridled greed. Making money (at all costs) has been their main preoccupation from the very beginning of their assumption of office; and they have largely operated ultra-vires the Constitution of our Party; displaying crass indiscipline and unrepentant impunity in the running of the affairs of the Party in the State.
The perfidy of the State Exco, and their pursuit of money veritably knows no bounds. In the run-up to the two Conventions of the Party in Abuja, and the Primaries in Lagos, they routinely violated Article 21 A (xi) of our Constitution, by altering the delegates list to reflect only those with whom they had agreed to share whatever the Party advanced to cover their hotel and transport expenses . Non-delegates were usually the substitutes in those cases. On other occasions, the State-Exco never bothered to pay the delegates at all. They simply converted and stole the monies, contrary to Article 21 (vii) of our Party Constitution (2014) as amended. The State Exco has also taken it upon itself the un-prescribed authority under our Party Constitution, to issue suspension letters indiscriminately to anyone who challenges their impunity. The State Chairman of the Party (Amadu Atai) specialized in creating fake names and forging fake signatures of non-existent party officials at all levels, which he used in such suspension letters. This action is contrary to Article 21 A(vii) of our Party Constitution.   
During the Party Convention in December 2014 where Akwa Ibom State delegates were supposed to be paid to augment their hotel, feeding and transport expenses, no delegate ever received any money. It was simply criminally converted by the State Exco for their personal use. They similarly converted money which was the State’s share from the sale of Nomination Forms; as well as money sent for the training of Party agents in all the Units in the State. Many members of the State Exco have become sudden owners of storey buildings and jeeps; while the Chapters and other functionaries of the Party in Akwa Ibom State, only hear of money given to States that do not have APC Governors for instance, but have heard of no such declaration by the State Exco members who could be perhaps up to their usual sleaze.
The State Exco prefers to work with the PDP in Akwa Ibom State, rather than with the APC organs, contrary to Article 21A(ii) of the Constitution of the APC; and thus, have completely wiped out the Party in the State. They admitted all sorts of characters into the Party including discredited and disgruntled PDP decampees who offered them weighty monetary inducements for board appointments. They contravened Article A 21 (iv) and (v) of the Constitution by replacing without elections through Congress, nearly all the authentic Chapter Chairmen; and their new appointees are known to have purchased their positions with huge sums of money. They have also created a fraudulent body they call ‘Council of Elders’, in which they all belong, and which sole responsibility is to recruit other willing men of financial means into,  for a huge fee. 
The State Exco has converted all plans of the Federal Government for the poor, into money-making ventures; and bastardized almost all the Federal Government’s empowerment initiatives. 
In administering the ‘N-Power’ scheme, they collected the sum of N20,000 (Twenty Thousand Naira) per person, from thousands of people who intended to benefit from the scheme; but till date, there are no beneficiaries, and monies collected from the hopeful beneficiaries have not been refunded. Even the Conditional Cash Transfer Policy of the Federal Government, meant for the women was fraudulently administered, as the State Exco of the Party in Akwa Ibom State, collected the sum of N5,000 (Five Thousand Naira only) from all the women.
They also hold seminars to train people to await the several palliative measures programmed by the Federal Government for the poor. They charged fees for attendance at the seminar; and printed and sold forms, claiming the forms are from the Federal Government for those who will be considered qualified to benefit from the schemes including contractors to the school feeding programme planned by the Federal Government. Apart from the fact that all of these actions contravene Article 21 (vii) of our Constitution, the deception alone has defrauded people of millions of naira and is set to rubbish the Party’s fortunes in elections when not realized.
We have enough evidence to prove that the State Secretary of the Party (Mr. Effiong Etok) is a PDP mole, assigned to sabotage and undermine the success of the APC in the State. Today, the Lexus jeep he drives was bought for him by a serving PDP Senator. He also received a N10 Million gift from the same source. The gifts were earned because in the 2015 elections he (Mr. Effiong Etok), as the State Secretary, sent bulk text messages (sms) to all APC agents in the field to abandon their polling units; which led to the loss of the APC to the PDP, as the agents could not access unit results or collate evidence they could have used in court. The State Secretary is also a man with a proven history of insincerity and betrayal. When he was then Itu Local Government Chapter Chairman of the now defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), he sold out his Party to the also now defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), during the 1991 elections. To underscore the fact of his dishonesty, he once sold a Peugeot 504 station-wagon attached to him as an official Party vehicle, and lied that the car was stolen. The truth came to the fore only when the person that bought the car from him surfaced, to prove otherwise. This man has been a snare in the APC; and is known to betray his political Party to an opposition Party for a fee, and thereafter, negotiate with members of the opposing Party to create a scenario where he will escape suspicion undetected.

As further proof of the intransigent and unrepentant attitude of the State Exco of our Party, when a local tabloid obtained and published the authentic list of State and Chapter Exco members of our Party (the APC), the State Chairman and his Secretary (Dr. Amadu Atai and Mr. Effiong Etok respectively), issued an advertorial (See Annexure One attached). They wrote: “In view of the aforesaid, we wish to state and declare as follows:

(1) That there is no other list/lists of State and Chapter Executive members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), except the one that can be obtained at the State Secretariat of the Party, and recognized by relevant authorities.

(2)That the Chapter Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in all the Thirty-One (31) Local Government Areas of the State know themselves, and have been dealing directly with the State Executive vis-à-vis the authentic Ward Chairmen and registered members of our great Party in their respective domains”. By the foregoing, it is manifest that this Exco list which they purport is only known to them and not the teeming APC members and loyalists in the State.

Also attached (Annexure Two), is a copy of one of the appointment letters they issued for elective Party offices without Congress.    
It is sad that today, on account of the excesses of the State Exco of our Party, a critical situation has been created where any elections in the State are contested between the PDP and the PDP; (ie the discredited PDP decampees on one hand; and the real PDP members on the other). Consequently, the original and true APC members in Akwa Ibom State have lost their voice.
Those who love this Party are not new to the script playing out before our eyes. In 2011, as ACN, the precursor of our Party, and then the toast of the political parties in Akwa Ibom State, one Aniekan Willie Akpan, as the State Chairman, played along; denying all accusations thrown at him for anti-party activities, until the eve of the election. Indeed it was at the collation, that he surfaced in the PDP Government House and on national television, denied his Party, claiming falsely that his Party never won the election, and promptly defected to the PDP where he was soon appointed Chairman, Caretaker Committee of  a Local Government Council in the State. Only recently after losing his appointment, this same Aniekan Akpan has returned to the APC and sits with the present State Chairman and the PDP decampees.
We wish to intimate you also that the entire Ward Executives in the 11 (Eleven) Wards of Oruk Anam Local Government Area, (an indispensable Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State), from where Amadu Atai, the State Chairman of the Party; and Don Etiebet, a Chieftain of the Party, both hail, and the Local Government Exco of the Party itself, moved en-masse on State television to the PDP in one day, on the compromise of the two Party stalwarts that the wife of the State Governor, Mrs Martha Udom Emmanuel is their daughter and hails from the Local Government Area! In other words, these so called leaders of the Party are leaders merely before you in Abuja, they have no APC where they hail from and are appropriately regarded as PDP moles in our Party.
AWARE therefore of the destruction further foot-dragging on this communication has cost the Party; and the irreversibility of such destruction soonest against elections not far away in contemplation;
DESIRING desperately to save our Party now gasping for breath and repositioning it in good time, with capable hands before those elections;
HAVING considered the foregoing violent abuses of the Constitution of our great Party as amended; 
AND the massive corruption; stealing; anti-party activities; brazen indifference to complaints made by members of the Party for amends, all perpetrated by members of the State Exco of our Party;
We, being the Forum of State Officers, Chapter Chairmen, and Ward Executives of the All Progressives Congress, in Akwa Ibom State;
Do hereby unanimously pass a vote of no confidence on the State Exco, and have consequently
removed forthwith, all members of the present State Working Committee of the APC in Akwa Ibom State from office.
After exhaustive and painstaking deliberations, we also have resolved to restore the Party to a winning mentality by an efficient administration under capable hands; and have immediately appointed a Caretaker Committee, which shall begin without any delay to administer the Party until a proper ‘Congress’ of the Party is held to elect fresh substantive officers;

See list Attached,


Yours Faithfully,
For the Forum of APC State Executives, Chapter Executives and Ward Executives


signatures collected

Saint APC!

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