The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in Nsit Atai of Akwa Ibom State, Prince Sunny Elijah, has defied last-minute pressure from Governor Udom Emmanuel to defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC), at a grand rally attended by Senator Godswill Akpabio and other APC chieftains in the state.

Elijah, a grassroots politician rejoined PDP in August, last year, at the prompting of Governor Emmanuel, after his disagreement with some Nsit Atai APC leaders over the local government chairmanship nomination, but he returned to APC on Monday, in spite of pleas from the governor.

On getting wind of Elijah’s impending defection last week, Emmanuel was said to have sent five of his commissioners to lure him to the house of a multimillionaire cement dealer and staunch supporter of the governor, at Osongama Estate, in Uyo, where they begged him to remain in PDP with an immediate cash offer of N5 million and other promises.

Prince Elijah, who rejected the offers defected to the APC with his wife and immediate past House of Assembly member for Nsit Atai, Mrs Sarah Elijah, another former House of Assembly member, Obong Asuquo Darby Udo, a former local government chairman, Prince Sunny Ossom, a serving supervisor, 40 PDP ward executive members, former PDP chapter chairmen, former councillors and thousands of other supporters.

Addressing the rally at Odot, the council headquarters, Prince Elijah dismissed the PDP as a party full of contractors and lightweight politicians.

He criticised the PDP leadership for allegedly breaking the longstanding zoning arrangement, by giving the incumbent House of Assembly member a second term ticket.

He hailed the APC for picking its House of Assembly candidate, Princess Blessing Osom, from the Afaha group of villages and called on Nsit Atai people to support all candidates of the party in the 2019 elections.

Mrs Elijah, Obong Udo and Prince Ossom, who also spoke called PDP a deceitful party and said they were joining APC to bury PDP in Nsit Atai.

Ini Okopido, the State chairman of APC, who received the defectors, said they were entitled to all rights and privileges with old members.

Akpabio, the immediate past state governor, said with the defection of Elijah, all the generals of Nsit Atai politics are now in APC.

He commended Nsit Atai APC members for being peaceful and for not retaliating the destruction of campaign billboards of Obong Nsima Ekere, the APC governorship candidate located within their area on the Airport Road, by suspected PDP agents.

He reeled out what President Buhari had done for Akwa Ibom and criticised the state government for refusing to embrace the Anchor Borrower’s agricultural scheme of the Federal Government.

The APC deputy governorship candidate, Amadu Attai, who represented Obong Nsima Ekere, said the prophecy of Senator Akpabio, that PDP will collapse in Akwa Ibom by December 2018, was being fulfilled with the continuing defection from the PDP all over the state.


Group Captain Sam Ewang (retd), a former military administrator of Rivers State, said he was overwhelmed by the number of defectors as he had counted up to 10,000 persons, adding that with their coming, Nsit Atai is completely APC.

Meanwhile, the state government has warned neighbouring states and other states of the federation to stop turning the state into a dumping ground for lunatics.

Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Gloria Edet, who gave the warning yesterday, said a large chunk of her ministry’s budget has been depleted through evacuation, treatment and
rehabilitation of lunatics dumped in the state from other states of the federation.

Edet said more than 80 percent of lunatics evacuated, treated and rehabilitated through her ministry were non-indigenes.

“We appeal to other states to stop dumping lunatics in Akwa Ibom,” she said.

http://sunnewsonline.com/akwa-ibom-pdp-leader-defies-gov-defects-to-apc/amp/

Oam4j, mynd44

I am disappointed in my party.

See how easily APC is gaining ground especially down south while my party cannoteven boast of making proper inroads up north.

Thunder fire PDP

Akpabio, the immediate past state governor, said with the defection of Elijah, all the generals of Nsit Atai politics are now in APC.

Akpabio Is Our Next Senate President..

Food for zombiess

OfficialPDPNig = Cilicmarin = APC's Director of FakeNews

OfficialAPCNig:
OfficialPDPNig = Cilicmarin = APC's Director of FakeNews

And officialpdpnig owns sun news paper who published this news and my name is also Prince Sunny Elijah the PDP leader in Nsit Atai too.

You must be from doofusville

GOD BLESS BUHARI. ur enemies ll run away from dis tread

he even styled his own broom....

CilicMarin:


Akpabio Is Our Next Senate President..

una never still learn lesson?
Dream ! dream! dream!

Akpabio is APC's biggest and best transfer acquisition this electioneering period. Dude is the real MVP. He deserve lots of accolades.

seunmsg:
Akpabio is APC's biggest and best transfer acquisition this electioneering period. Dude us the real MVP. He deserve lots of accolades.

self deceit is free.
You can wallow in it

Pls what is happening in this state because everyday there are millions defecting from APC to PDP and PDP to APC .

APC propaganda... Na today?

Officialpdpnig:
I am disappointed in my party.

See how easily APC is gaining ground especially down south while my party cannoteven boast of making proper inroads up north.

Thunder fire PDP

Hehehehehe

It's because of the greed and longthroat of most southern politicians, who stand for little more than the pecuniary interests they aim to gain from politics! They can easily be bullied or bought over, while their fellow crooked politicians up north first make sure their greed and longthroat is in keeping with the interests of Islam and Arewa before agreeing to anything! This gives the core muslim north an advantage over the south, and enables them to gain more out of the murky waters in which politics is played in Nigeria!

Look at all those lazy youths in the picture celebrating madness because they are hungry...

Instead of saying no to election they are very happy to remain slaves...


Black people shaaaaa

People believe in Akpabio as a leader more than Udom. It's just that simple.
You can't beat performance no matter what

Akpabio is a noise maker...….. he can't win his senatorial district to return to the senate

While APC is still dancing in all sorts of self inflicted challenges....PDP is focused and progressing

My akpu head is in severe pains ooo

GavelSlam:


OfficialAPCNig 5 Naira per post.

He's been promised 7 Naira per post when the new minimum wage comes into play.

I heard they pay 30k per month at BMC. How do you survive with that under this buhari's economy coupled with the news that your girlfriend is pregnant? It must be so depressing for your cursed soul. Take heart lad, Atiku would fix the mess.

No Shaking

seunmsg:
Akpabio is APC's biggest and best transfer acquisition this electioneering period. Dude us the real MVP. He deserve lots of accolades.

Apkabio a minority amongst minorities! This simply says it all APC is desperately confused!