The personal Assistant to the wife of the governor on Protocol matters, Mrs Nsikan Ukpanah, who spoke to reporters in the course of a rally by Emmanuel’s supporters in Lagos, on Saturday, stated the governor’s followers were no longer intimidated.
Asked if ex-governor Godswill Akpabio’s defection to the All Progressives Congress should pose a hassle for Emmanuel’s re-election bid, Ukpanah stated, “The people of Akwa Ibom voted the governor when they didn’t even understand him. Now that they know him, they'll vote him again.
“We are not intimidated or fearful of anybody. One man isn't always sufficient to make the governor stay back; it is the people that matter. those people (supporters) that came out were not backed by the governor. They invited me. You may see them in the rain; they're passionate about the governor. That is to show you that the governor merits a second term.”
Ukpanah counseled Akwa Ibom indigenes in Lagos to transfer their voter cards to Uyo, “due to the fact we're going to vote the governor again to the seat of power.”
In step with her, the people of Akwa Ibom are pleased with Emmanuel and his feats on account that he assumed office in 2015.
In the meantime, a political godfather of Senator Akpabio, chief Michael Afangide, has joined the campaign for Emmanuel’s re-election.
Ninety-eight-year-old Afangide who's one of the frontline elders within the nation, stated he was assisting Emmanuel due to his detribalised method to governance and seriousness in providing infrastructure inside the state.
Afangide, who Akpabio, fondly calls the political leader of Essien Udim, in which they both hail from, defined himself as a founding father of the PDP.
He stated in Uyo on Saturday that he supported former governor Victor Attah to guide the state for 2 terms likewise Akpabio, including that he had no purpose not to support the PDP and Emmanuel for two terms as governor.
Saying Akapbio remains his political godson, he added that the senator’s cause for leaving the PDP was private to him and he can't carry him (Afangide) together with him to the APC.
“For over two decades, we had been building the PDP, I can not build a thing of such magnitude and get up at some point to desert it for no precise purpose,” he said.
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