Etiebet condemns PDP ward delegates' congress in AKS

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Etiebet condemns PDP ward delegates’ congress in A’Ibom

A MEMBER of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Don Etiebet, has alleged that the ad-hoc delegate congress in Akwa Ibom State was a hoax, as due process was not followed in all the 31 local councils of the state.
  Etiebet, who revealed this yesterday while speaking with journalists in his Ewet Housing residence in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, said the whole exercise was not only a farce but a fraud to democracy, calling on the national headquarters of the party to wade into the matter so as to avoid seeming crisis in the state chapter of the party.
  He said: “I want to tell you that I am not satisfied with the conduct of the ward congress conducted in the state on Saturday. It was a farce and there was no congress conducted in the state.”
  He further alleged that the Chairman of the PDP Electoral Committee in the state, Senator Abdulaziz Ibrahim, was bias because he refused to address the party elders in the state when he arrived on Friday preceding the ward congress.
  “Senator Ibrahim openly told the stakeholders and aspirants that he did not come to conduct ward congress but to monitor. Normally when such team arrives in the state, they will talk to party elders, they will address the different aspirants and their supporters but they did not do that. We did not even know that they were in Akwa Ibom,” Etiebet alleged.
  He said that when he got to know that the committee was in the state, he had to call the chairman on phone by 11:00 a.m. on Saturday when the chairman directed him to wait in the party office, which he did until 3:00 p.m. when the chairman surfaced with sealed envelopes.
  He explained that when the aspirants and stakeholders asked him to disclose the content of the envelopes, the chairman bluntly refused to oblige to their demand.
  Etiebet, who argued that such was not the instruction given to the electoral committee by the headquarters of the party, noted that his action gave room to suspicion as the envelopes might have contained doctored names of delegates for a preferred candidates.
  “I was surprised because the term of reference given to them was to come and conduct ward congresses. If he came to monitor, that means he was not conducting, which means there was no ward congress.  If he is monitoring, who then was conducting?
  “The truth of the whole thing is that we don’t accept the outcome of the ward congress. The party in Abuja is a listening one, if we are able to prove and we have proven that there was no ward congress in Akwa Ibom State, the party will have to send a new team to re-elect ward delegates. As a BoT member of the PDP, I want to assure you that I stand for justice. There should be a normal internal democracy, and whoever emerges, we will support”, Etiebet further said.
  He then called on the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Adamu Mu’azu and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to intervene and cancel the fraudulent ward congress in the state.
  He said that people were aggrieved and were only being controlled by party elders in the state, stressing that the people would only be satisfied when there is free, fair and level-playing field for all aspirants