The governor is in favour says Mr. Patrick Udomfang

 

Director of legal services at the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mr. Patrick Udomfang has accused aides of Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio of scheming to set the governor against him.

Udomfang, a former commissioner for local governments and chieftaincy affairs in the state, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja, was reacting to a report in an online portal quoting him to have endorsed Chief Umana Okon Umana for the 2015 governorship election in the state.
The governor is in favour of the position being zoned to the Eket senatorial district while Umana hails from Uyo senatorial district.

The PDP chieftain said the report was a calculated attempt by an official of the state government to create divisions between him and Governor Akpabio.
“I will never commit political suicide by taking a position different from that of my governor and major stakeholders in Akwa Ibom State who have unanimously agreed that it is the turn of Eket district to produce the governor in 2015.
“The alleged appointment of Mr. Iniobong Okopido as my campaign manager, as stated in the offensive publication, is the height of falsehood, as everyone in Abak constituency knows that I have not constituted my campaign committee yet,” he said.