Ahead of the 2019 elections, there are sinister plots against politicians and Political office holders in Akwa Ibom State, which we are not ignorant of.

There is no time, Barrister Emmanuel Enoidem, the National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) had railroaded stakeholders in Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika Federal Constituency into accepting a zoning arrangement to favour one candidate.

We can recall that, in a meeting of Stakeholders of the Federal Constituency, which was held in Independence Hall, Abak, in August 2017, it was unanimously agreed that the seat of the Federal House of Representatives in the constituency be rotated to Abak, for equity, justice and fairplay with Etim Ekpo, having held the position for two consecutive terms of eight years for the first time in the history of the Federal Constituency which Emmanuel Ekon is the beneficiary.

It is pertinent to set the records straight, that anyone who wishes to aspire to any office, has the constitutional right to do so. The National Legal Adviser of the PDP, who is the Chief Law Officer of the Party, is not oblivious of this fact. It is the collective decision of the stakeholders of the Federal Constituency, which Barrister Enoidem would not have taken unilaterally. But anyone who is not from Abak LGA who wants to contest for that seat must know that he is running against the tide and should not blame Emmanuel Enoidem for the consequences of his political suicide mission.

Barrister Enoidem as a politician in the state from the Constituency, in exercise of his right, definitely has someone to support from among the aspirants from Abak LGA where the position is zoned, and is entitled to work to ensure that the decision of the leaders and stakeholders from the area is not rubbished by a misguided element who is displaying uncontrollable and unconscionable quest to permanently live in the House of Representatives for life, and that right must be respected by all.

Such people must learn to bear their crosses and know that it was God that gave them their first and second terms and not silly blackmails of Emmanuel Enoidem.

The allegations that Emmanuel Enoidem has perfected plans to compel the Council Chairmen of Abak, Etim Ekpo and Ika to use the local government funds to sponsor a mass youth action against a particular aspirant, remains an infantile figment of naive and anaemic imagination of the sponsors of the puerile write up.

For the records, the council Chairmen are not answerable to Barrister Emmanuel Enoidem, but to the Governor of Akwa Ibom State who superintendents over them and the people of their various LGAs who elected them.

Enoidem is one of the founding members of the party, who has risen from different cadres to become a National Officer of the Party, and has over the times, engaged the All Progressives Congress(APC) in robust debates on the poor performance of President Muhammadu Buhari. On what basis will the PDP National Legal Adviser be supporting or asking people to vote for APC?
It is a surprise and laughable that some young people who know little or nothing about politics who are privileged by God to occupy certain offices can suddenly dream of frustrating Emmanuel Enoidem to the extent of engaging in anti-party activities by their misplaced and warped ambition.

The NLA is not in a position to decide or determine who should be close to Gov Udom Emmanuel, Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Officers of the Party, or any other person, which any one wants to relate with, as relationship(s) with any person(s) remains personal and may not transmit to votes in a democracy.
And it to be noted that these people who claimed to be very close to the Gov, the Senator and the party at the national today were once very close to Emmanuel Enoidem but now sees him as en enemy because Enoidem is not in support of a blind selfish third term ambition. So they change with the tides of personal benefits accruing to them and not on any known identifiable principle.
It is easy to deduct that when they fail the party primaries, as they sure will, it is obvious that their closeness with the Gov, the Senator and indeed the party, at home and at the national, will be affected negatively.

It is, indeed, in any case, very surprising and nonsensical for any sane man to contemplate or claim that he would be closer to Gov Udom Emmanuel, Senator Godswill Akpabio or even to the leadership of PDP yesterday, today or tomorrow than Emmanuel Enoidem.

This is clearly an act of self deceit and idiotic strategy of a drown man driven by a vaulting ambition who has chosen to jettison history, cast all morals to the dust and thinks he can send God on transfer because he has an accidental opportunity to come in contact with money. It is a morbid imagination of a child who thinks he has suddenly become older and smarter than the father because he is chairman of the local content committee of the House of Representatives. This the madness of a young man who has chosen to pooh-pooh the leadership of Abak Federal Constituency because of a sudden contact with few coins.

The NLA is more interested in empowering the people of his Constituency and presently runs a free health facility in Etim Ekpo, which is accessible to all, even indigenes of other areas. This is where he spends his money whenever God blesses him to touch lives, and not waste on needless protest that cannot affect the lives of the people in any way.

This is contrary to some new comers to the scene who are accidental millionaires who come around at the period of elections, to give the people 30- 50 thousand naira after they would’ve subjected them to oath taking to support them.

Such people have sent God out of their stupid selfish ambition as God can’t share His glory with any man or money.

It is only a man who thinks he can cook for the entire Federal Constituency to eat and that would get his hands perished and his fortunes squandered who will look for an escape goat in another person.

Emmanuel Enoidem did not send a dog to steal eggs so let them leave him alone.

The greatest relevance anybody should seek to have, is to identify with the people and impact on their lives. So far, Barrister Enoidem’s records are in the public for all to see.

We are in a political season. And anyone is free to be associated with political parties of their choice. But let it be known to mischief makers, that the entire people of Abak/Etim Ekpo/Ika are solidly behind the Peoples Democratic Party, irrespective of the bad blood some political jobbers are trying to create.

Eneh John

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National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party.