by A frontline senatorial aspirant of the All Progressive Congress APC, and founding member who served as Secretary of the merger committee of the party, Chief Okoi Obono Obla Esq, has stated that the APC in Cross River State is fractured beyond redemption due to the imposition of candidates during the selection process.
Chief Obla reacted to the just concluded APC primaries election held at Ikom Local Government Area, the central senatorial headquarters, on his Facebook page.
The statement in full “The APC Senatorial Congress for the nomination of the candidate of the Central senatorial district of Cross River State held in Ikom on 28 May 2022, was a charade.
T”election was marred by voting buying perpetuated by desperate aspirants in front of security agents.
A” except the anointed one) did not know who would be the electors at the election until they got to the polling station.
It was not surprising that altered and doctored delegate lists by the powers that be to support the “anointed aspirant“.
Some of us know before voting that the election would be a sham.
“Every politically informed person was aware that a particular aspirant was the favorite of the powers that be. The brandishing of the name of one particular as the favored one weeks before the election amounts to intimidation.
“The potentate makes sure that you must have his endorsement before you can aspire to become a candidate.
“Aspirants that did not have the endorsement of the potentate, had sorts of obstacles thrown along their paths.
I”was the target from day one.
The powers that be were at a crossroads on what to do with me and therefore devised crude and inferior methods to edge me out.
The APC has completed deviated from the philosophy of its founding fathers.
“Let us see how the anointed aspirants will deliver the Party in the Cross River State. As it stands the Party, is fractured beyond redemption”.
