AKWA IBOM POLITICS: More troubles for Akpabio, others as stakeholders say they have sold APC to PDP
*Report development to President Tinubu *Allegations spurious, unfounded - Akpabio's Media Aide *Don't expect Tinubu to check Akpabio and co because their anti-party favours his 2027 ambition - Respondent

By KEMI KASUMU and OUR REPORTERS, Abuja, Uyo
This, our impeccable sources have repeatedly warned, is the reason for all the political crises that are tearing Nigerians apart as witnessed in Kano, Lagos and River states in particular. In Kano, when “robbing the people – by judiciary manipulation – of their Abba Kabir Yusuf’s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) mandate became impossible due to stiff resistance, they turned to politicising the Kano Emirate Council Law corrective measure the governor did to restore the dignity the Ganduje’s 2019 law caused the I’ve 1,000 years old Emirate. Reason Kano is moving from court till today over emership tissue. It is the same one man’s interest,” he said.
Like Yoruba parlance says baby that say his mother will not sleeping himself will find no rest, troubles rocking the personality of Senate President God’swill Akpabio in the country seem not going to end soon as another stage of it is erupting from his home state of Akwa Ibom.

In that Pastor Umo Bassey Eno-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) state, members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are accusing their former governor, who is now Senate President, of joining some other persons in selling off the APC to PDP.
By implications, the new development in that South South state is signposting escalation, 2027 to Akwa Ibom State, of the political crisis that the allegedly Bola Tinubu’s singular interest of winning re-election in 2027.
The crisis was said to have started the very day Tinubu assumed office as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the wild fire snowballed from Kano to Zamfara through Kaduna, Bauchi and spread to Lagos and Rivers states.
The political fire outbreak raged until, because of wild warnings from Northern leaders including their religious leaders mainly, Chief Justice of Nigeria and President of National Judicial Council, Ariwoola, at the time intervened and the Supreme Court of Nigeria dowsed the fire by making a u-turn from speculated judiciary manipulation that the APC federal government was about to do to take over those Northern states from opposition and give to itself ahead of 2027 in 2023.
Akpabio, it has always been alleged, is a former minority leader (PDP) that Tinubu foisted on the 10th National Assembly as Senate President to enable him have his way through the legislative arm of government that ordinarily should independently function for checks and balancing with view to give good governance to Nigerian people and development to Nigeria.
But, like the former Governor of Rivers State Nyesom Wike who is even still claiming to be member of PDP although pronounced by APC’s Tinubu as one of his closest ally (if not the only closest), there is a suggested unholy collaboration ongoing within Tinubu’s administration that sees Akpabio, Wike, former Zamfara Governor Mohammed Bello, former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Governor of Imo State Hope Uzordima and National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu working together in what looks to them like unstoppable strategy to engender Tinubu-led oligarchy as new form of establishment to replace the existing sayings of “Owners of Nigeria”.
This, our impeccable sources have repeatedly warned, is the reason for all the political crises that are tearing Nigerians apart as witnessed in Kano, Lagos and River states in particular. In Kano, when “robbing the people – by judiciary manipulation – of their Abba Kabir Yusuf’s New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) mandate became impossible due to stiff resistance, they turned to politicising the Kano Emirate Council Law corrective measure the governor did to restore the dignity the Ganduje’s 2019 law caused the I’ve 1,000 years old Emirate. Reason Kano is moving from court till today over emership tissue. It is the same one man’s interest,” he said.
He added that the same cause of crisis of Kano is the cause that happened to Sultan in Sokoto last year and then in Rivers and all others. That is where the problem Nigeria faces presently comes from, he said.
Moving forward to the Akwa Ibom’s bite of the 2027 election instigated crisis, some stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state have accused Senate President God’swill Akpabio, the party’s state Chairman, Mr. Stephen Ntukekpo, and the Minister of Petroleum (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, of selling the soul of the party to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in exchange for PDP’s support for Akpabio’s 2027 third-term ambition, to which our sources added Tinubu’s second term ambition.
The allegation was made in an open letter to President Bola Tinubu, titled “The Worrisome State of the APC in Akwa Ibom State: A Call for Your Intervention”, jointly signed by Elder Okokon James, Peter Ibanga, and Chief Victor Affiah from the Uyo, Eket, and Ikot Ekpene Senatorial districts, respectively.
A copy of the letter, which does not join Tinubu in the accusation, was made available to newsmen on Sunday March 16, 2025 in Uyo, read:
“We, the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State, are compelled to write this open letter to you.
“The state chairman of the party, Mr. Stephen Ntukekpo, and the Minister of Petroleum (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, are openly declaring that they were directed by the Senate President to cripple the party in the state, giving the PDP an easy ride to victory in the 2027 polls in exchange for PDP’s support for the Senate President’s third-term ambition.
“We want to assure Mr. President that if urgent action is not taken to revive and strengthen the party in the state, there won’t be party members left to receive you when you visit next year to campaign.
“The soul and spirit of the party in the state have been sold to the PDP-led government, and as a result, party members are gearing up to join an upcoming opposition coalition against your second-term ambition.
“How can party members be mobilized for you when the party itself has been intentionally crippled by the Senate President and his close allies? It is unbelievable that the party is dead in a state that produces the Senate President and the Minister of Petroleum Resources.”
The APC stakeholders described Akpabio’s actions as a betrayal of confidence and treachery against the party, which provided the platform for his Senate Presidency.
“Should members of the party in the state move en masse to the opposition coalition against your second-term ambition, hold the Senate President and the Minister of Petroleum (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo, responsible,” they asserted.
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They further warned that Governor Umo Eno would neither join the APC nor commit to Tinubu’s second-term ambition, stating:
“While Governor Umo Eno and his team are strengthening their party daily, our party leaders are doing nothing to show that APC still exists in the state.”
However, responding on Sunday, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, dismissed the allegations as spurious and mischievous.
“The writers of the letter are non-existent and not known to the party. Their allegations are spurious and mischievous.
“The Senate President has strengthened the party through various appointments he has secured for members. Do you call that working against the party?” Eyiboh said.
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