The Akwa Ibom State chapter of Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has refuted claims
by Senator Godswill Akpabio that he was
suspended from the PDP.
Akpabio, a senator representing Akwa Ibom
Northwest in the 8th National Assembly had
told a Federal High Court on Friday, May 17,
2019 that he moved to the All Progressives
Congress (APC) after being suspended from the
PDP.
This was sequel to a suit filed by an advocacy
group, Legal Aides Assistant Project (LEDAP)
which sought to remove Senator Akpabio and
53 other members of the National Assembly
who defected from one political party to
another in 2018.
Delivering judgement on the case, Justice Okon
Abang tilted to the position of the former
governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill
Akpabio.
Justice Okon Abang said, “Having provided
evidence that he (Akpabio) was suspended from
the party (PDP), the defendant (Akpabio) was
free to move to another political party.”
Apparently irked by the ruling, the PDP in Akwa
Ibom State has accused Akpabio of fraudulently
obtaining the expulsion letter.
PDP alleged an ex-member of the party,
Ntiedo Usoro who served as Essien Udim Local
Government chapter Chairman issued a fake
expulsion letter to Akpabio in which the latter
tendered before the court.
In a statement released by Comrade Ini
Ememobong, AKS State Publicity Secretary, on
Friday, the party claimed there is no way
Akpabio would have been expelled at the local
government level without concurrent expulsion
at the national level.
The party’s statement reads thus:
The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the People’s
Democratic Party has read a news item flowing
from the judgement of a Federal High Court
sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice Abang
wherein the trial judge held that Senator
Akpabio led evidence to show that he was
expelled from the People’s Democratic Party
and therefore was justified in law in ‘moving’ to
the APC.
We state that nothing can be farther from the
truth than the transparent lie of expulsion
shamelessly spewed by Chief Akpabio. We
make bold to state that at no time was Chief
Akpabio suspended or expelled from the party.
Chief Akpabio had announced to the world on
August 8,2018 that he was defecting from the
PDP to the APC in pursuit of National interest
and to stem the tide of defections at the
National Assembly.
In fact, at different campaigns, he mocked the
PDP as being empty since his uncommon
defection . At no time did he mention the issue
of expulsion, which has now become his
creation as a lame defence to keep his seat. He
conspired with Ntiedo Usoro, the then Chapter
Chairman of Essien Udim to illegally write a
letter of expulsion to him and back date same.
The said Ntiedo having completed his
assignment, later defected and joined Chief
Akpabio in the APC.
This ignoble comedy which has been taken
beyond sane limits is most condemnable and
dishonorable. It is indicative of the total exit of
honour from a man whom many erroneously
held in high esteem. There is no way that
Senator Akpabio could have been expelled by
the party, without the concurrence of the State
Executive Committee of the party. There is no
record showing the existence of such a punitive
move undertaken against the senator by his
ward or chapter executive council. Expulsion is
a process and not an event.
We know that the disgraced senator is running
from his shadows and questioning karma, as his
conscience is putting him to remembrance of
how he masterminded the suspension and
eventual expulsion of his predecessor, Obong
Victor Attah from the Party(though the act was
reversed by the National Exco of the party). His
successor, Governor Udom Emmanuel and the
incumbent party leadership under Obong Paul
Ekpo have decidedly made themselves
unavailable for karma to use against him.
Nigerians are not fools and cannot be deceived
by double speak and greed propelled
dishonesty, but they may be amused by face
saving but disdainful comedy, scripted and
acted by an uncommon National Comedian.
Senator Akpabio should count today as his
lucky day, because if our great party had been
joined in that suit, his fake bravado would have
evaporated, exposing his real and inherent
cowardly character and paranoia-influenced
mindset.
We warn Senator Akpabio to desist forthwith
from including the PDP in his serial lies. He is
history to us, for all we care and soon, will be
history to his Senatorial District- people who
have sent the disgraced senator on compulsory
political retirement.
A brave man should prepare to face the natural
consequences of his actions and not to engage
in perennial doublespeak, disgraceful
pendulum motion and irreverent redefinition
of established terms.
https://firstreportsonline.com/akpabio-was-not-suspended-from-pdp-he-defected-pdp-claims/
Lalasticlala. Seun

Truly, where is Akpabio's honour? What did he want to gain by fraudulently obtaining a fake expulsion letter?
The "uncommon defector" made a lot of noise like he just won the Wimbledon Grandslam when he defected but claiming now that he was expelled. Wonders shall never end.