Materials for the Ward Congress of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom State, which arrived the State on Friday, were hijacked and diverted to a masked hotel in Osongama Housing Estate, Uyo.
This is happening as Caucus members of the party were meeting to discuss modalities for the Ward Congress scheduled for Saturday by 10:am.
A source told Ibom Telegraph that “prior to this moment, there has been disagreement on the modalities to use for the exercise.
Obong Nsima Ekere, a chieftain of the party and former deputy governor of the State had insisted that the current executives of the party should be retained.”
Another report alleged that Ekere paid about N100million to the national leadership of the party to get their support for this scheme.
Earlier, members of the party kicked against a “strange” proposal to upturn the procedures for the congress put forward by Atuekong Don Etiebet.
Etiebet, who is the State Caucus Chairman of the party, had proposed a “guided congress.
Though our reporters, so went out monitor the Congress, are yet to file tentative reports, information has it that “within the last few days members of the APC in Akwa Ibom State have been in disarray over plot by Obong Nsima Ekere and a few others to hijack the congresses.”
