The Akwa Ibom Liberation Movement (AILM), a foremost sociopolitical group in Akwa Ibom state, has described the outcome of the just concluded senatorial/federal and state constituencies rerun election in Essien Udim as victory for democracy.
This was contained in a press released signed by Solomon Abasiekong secretary of the group, reacting to the court ordered rerun.
According to the release, the successful conduct of the senatorial/federal and state constituencies rerun elections scheduled for Saturday 25th January 2020 and the outcome thereof was very significant since it heralded the liberation of the people from a political siege which held them bound for years.
Abasiekong said “the people of Akwa Ibom have witnessed yet another phase of the irrecoverable decline of Chief Godswill Akpabio’s self centered political career and the end of his vice-grip on the state. Akpabio knew that sooner or later he would be flushed into the cesspool of history after he turned against his people in the course of his unbridled pursuit for power”.
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“All through the post election litigation, the former senate minority leader strutted about as if he owns the judiciary. His disgraceful interruptions during tribunal sittings and his baseless allegations against Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) amounted to nothing after all. He was humiliated when the Appeal court ordered a rerun rather than accede to his prayers to be declared the winner,” he said.
He said before the just concluded rerun election, Akpabio who had earlier withdrawn claiming he was ‘engaged on a ‘national assignment’ also forced his boys to issue a notice claiming to withdraw from the rerun on a flimsy grounds that the INEC REC, Mike Igini was not trustworthy.
“They only confirmed their trepidation of contesting in elections where votes are actually counted,” he said.
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