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The State Executive Committee of the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has suspended all members of the State Working Committee (SWC) / Extra Ordinary Convention Center Planning Committee , ethical misconduct, breach of responsibility and breach of trust, among other offences.
It also passed a vote of no confidence in the National Secretary of the Interim/Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator John Udoedehe, for failing to ensure that the guidelines for the ward convention are strictly followed and that the convention is held in the state.
This was revealed in a statement released at the end of the APC SEC State Meeting on August 1, 2021, jointly signed by Group Captain Sam Ewang (rtd), Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh, Rt Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo, Obonganwan Geraldine Etuk and Obonganwan Glory. Effig.
The suspension followed the failure of the SWC)/Extra Ordinary Convention Center Planning Committee to hold the party’s statewide neighborhood convention as announced.
Giving the reasons for the suspension, the statement said that according to the schedule/guidelines duly issued “on or about July 18, 2021” by CECPC National Secretary, Senator Udoedehe, neighborhood conventions were to be held on July 31. . , 2021.
The statement said each state, according to the guidelines, was supposed to have a seven-person committee selected on the basis of integrity to be known as the Ward Congress Committee, comprising the president, secretary and five others.
The ward convention committee would appoint three people as the local ward convention committee “who will be responsible for conducting the screening and the convention.”
He said the screening was scheduled for July 29-30, 2021 and the convention venues were neighborhood centers, while members should be notified of such centers within 12 hours before the convention starts.
The SEC noted that “Following the guidelines outlined above, the then Secretary of State for Party Publicity, Mr. Nkereuwem Enyongekere, on Thursday, July 29, 2021 through a public notice titled ‘PAC WARD CONGRESS NOTICE IN AKWA IBOM STATE’ unequivocally affirmed that the ward congress will be by direct election (option A4) in all 329 wards of Akwa Ibom State.
But he noted that those guidelines “were completely violated, as the neighborhood convention was not held in any of the 329 neighborhood centers across the state on the stipulated date.
The SEC noted, “Candidates for neighborhood leadership positions who paid money into party-designated bank accounts and got tellers instead of the positions they were vying for were not selected or denied. took advantage of the opportunity to participate in a democratic election process.
“Candidates who were not selected by the dates stipulated in the convention guidelines or by any other date known to us have been disenfranchised and fraudulently engineered.
“Some aspirants don’t even have access to the forms they paid for.
“APC members in Akwa Ibom State have not been informed of the time and place of the congress as stated in the congress guidelines.”
He described the action of the members of the State Work Committee as “malicious negligence and criminal negligence of responsibility.”
The SEC announced the appointment of a new state working committee to steer the party’s affairs in an interim capacity, “pending disciplinary action being entered into against the suspended and former members of the state working committee. of the party and the State Guardian/Extraordinary Congress Planning Committee.
The members of the interim state work committee, according to the release, are:
1. HE (Band Captain) Sam Ewang
2. Rt Hon Eseme Eyiboh, former MHR
3. Rt. Hon Ekperikpe Ekpo, former MHR
4. Hon (Dr) Emaeyak Ukpong, former MHR
5. Rt Hon Ema Bassey – former MHR
6. Hon Patty Etete Ineme former MHR
7. Hon Prince Nyong former MHR
8. Rt Hon Bassey Etim, Former – MHR
9.Rt.Hon Bassey Essien (former President AKHA)
10.Hon Nkereuwem O Dan former MHR
11. Hon Ubong Etiebet – former MHR
12. Hon Akpabio Ukpa (Former Majority Whip, AKHA)
13. Bishop Ekpe James – former Chairman of the Council
14. Dr. Effiong Etuk – former Party Secretary of State
15. Obonganwan Glory Effiong – former Head of State Women
16. Obonganwan Geraldine Etuk – former Head of State Women
17. Honorable (Mrs.) Gloria Useh, Former Chairperson of LGCouncil,
18. Barr Chris Okorie – Former LGCouncil Chair
19.Dr Chris Akpan -former Commissioner/LGCouncil Chair
20. Right Honorable Gabriel Toby -AKHA
21. Honorable Victor Udofia – AKHA
22. Honorable Idongesit Ntuen AKHA
23. Hon Victor Antai – former President/Council Commissioner,
24. Edidiong Joseph Idio. Chapter President Etim Ekpo LGA. 080237155028.
25. Engr Ifiok T Udoh. Chapter President, Nsit Atai LGA.09147131602
26. Bassey Effiong Udo. Chapter President, Uruan LGA.08132858918
27. Hon Ubong Ekpo, Chapter President, Ikot Abasi LGA.07066156498.
28. Elder Ubong Inyany, Chapter President, Ikono LGA.08025131188
29. Hon Augustus A Nkuseying, President of Esit Eket LGA Chapter. 08035653157
30.M. Akaingene Ukpanah.Chapter President, Ukanafun LGA.08027479733
31. Honorable Nkereuwem Edet Okpok. President of Nsit Ibom LGA Chapter..08023418218
32. Daniel Ekanem. Ikot Ekpene LGA Chapter President. 08063428479
33. Anthony Toby Akpan. Chapter President, Uruk
36. Honorable Samuel Mbosoh. Chapter President, Onna LGA 08138165169
37. Honorable Okon Toby Ebione. Chapter President, Oron LGA.07083145318.
38. Honorable Emmanuel Udoh. Chapter President.Mkpat-Enin LGA.07035151090
39. Mr. David Umoh. Chapter President, Ibiono Ibom LGA .08035827657
40. Joseph Sam, Chapter President.Ibesikpo Asutan.LGA.0806894402
41. Mr. Kufre Umoh, Former Chairman of LGCouncil, Ukanafun
42. Dr. David Umoessien former Chairman of LGCouncil, Ukanafun
The State Executive Committee called on the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who is the leader of the party in Akwa Ibom State; the SSA (Niger Delta Affairs) to the chairman, Senator Ita Enang, “and other highly respected members of the party” to work with the interim state working committee in liaison with the party’s national executive committee to fix a date when the district congress would be held in the state.
