A chieftain of the People Democratic Party (PDP ) and its former National Publicity Secretary Senator Aniette Okon has said President Muhammadu Buhari claims that votes meant for Senator Godswill Akpabio and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates in the last president and National Assembly elections in the state were stolen is a slight on the people of the state.
Vice President Yemi Osibanjo who represented president Buhari, Monday,during a thank you visit to the APC supporters in the state, assured that efforts would be made to recover the votes of Akpabio and other candidates stolen by the PDP in collusion with INEC in the state.
He said, “it is impossible for Senator Godswill Akpabio to lose election in Akwa Ibom.”
But Okon described the President’s utterances as callous and a disrespect to the people of Akwa Ibom, stressing that, “he is ignorant of the current state of affairs in the politics of the state.”
He advised professor Osibanjo to rather look for solutions to why his party lost elections in his Ward.
“When did he know that there was a stolen mandate here? The stolen mandate is in Sokoto, Borno, Yobe, Jigawa, Kano and Katsina. Let him go there and show preachment rather than to come here and desecrate the temple of truth by claiming that there was a stolen mandate. It shows complete disrespect to the values of the people bot Akwa Ibom state,” he said.
