Enoidem Ready To Fight Against Akpabio For Senate Seat *Supporters Go Dirty On Social Media
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With the listing of Senator Godswill Akpabio as candidate of the APC for the Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District senate seat by INEC, his PDP counterpart, Emmanuel Enoidem looks ready for a fight. He believes that as it was in 2019 when Akpabio was defeated by the PDP candidate, the former minister of Niger Delta Affairs will again be defeated.
Ironically, Enoidem served as commissioner in the government of Akpabio twice. Some of Akpabio’s loyalists have already said that Akpabio remains Enoidem’s master. They believe it is an affront for Enoidem to set out for a fight against his former boss, for a seat in the National Assembly.
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But Enoidem appears buoyed up by the seeming popularity of the ruling PDP in the state and the backing of the governor, Udom Emmanuel. Since 1999, the PDP has remained in control of Akwa Ibom State.
Last week, Enoidem declared that he was ready to face Akpabio. in a veiled reference to Akpabio’s touted ambition to become senate president, Enoidem said “some people are contesting to become senate president.
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“I am not going to the senate to become senate president. I am going to become a senator that is very practical, a senator that is available for his constituency and attract development back home for the benefit of my people and not to come with the cheapest and most ridiculous blackmail of wanting to go to the senate to become the senate president,” he said.
According to Enoidem, it is only mad people that will vote the APC into power again, after what the APC government has done to the country. “No sane person who has seen the suffering Nigerians are passing through under the APC led government will dare think of voting APC.
“It is crystal clear that the PDP is winning 2023. The APC has not done well so nobody should come to the rural communities to deceive you that he wants to go to the senate to become senate president when he knows he can’t even win the election, “the PDP candidate had said at a consultative visit to the palace of the Akwa Akuku Annang 1 and Paramount Ruler of Esisen Udim LGA, His Royal Majesty, Akwa Akuku Cosmas Akpan, Ekpeyong Atai, Esisen Udim LGA.
Supporters of the two candidates are however fighting dirty on social media. We reproduce here, unedited opinion posts by supporters of the two candidates as culled from their social media posts.