It was a sad and uninteresting moment
worse-still to mark the new month of August when all the eighteen chapter
executives and eleven ward chairmen in Eket Chapter Executives of the Peoples
Democratic party(PDP) gathered on Sunday, August 2,2015 at Visaco restaurant
(The business enterprise of the chapter vice chairman)in their usual meetings
to give deaf ears and remain adamant to what they expressed as an irrelevant
address by their chapter chairman, Evangelist Godwin David.
Our reporter gathered that the
chapter chairman’s addressed centered on the status and re-organization of the
party in the chapter, appointment of the commissioner from the area, setting up
of the chapter executive committee of the party, among other things. But not
withstanding the issues in the chapter chairman’s address, members of the
chapter executive rather lamented over the neglect of the party in the chapter
by the state and local Government during the administration of Obong Godswill
Obot Akpabio and Hon. Aniekan Wille Akpan respectively.
The chapter executives regretted that
the erstwhile state governor played politics with the party in the chapter in
particular by announcing an award of building contract worth #18M in favour of
the chapter in the proposed state Government Owned Housing Estate without
payment of mobilization contrary to the situation experienced by chapter
executives of the party in His Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District. The chapter
executives also frowned seriously at the state Government’s decision to empower
only the thirty-one chapter chairman of the party in the state at the detriment
of all other chapter executives as if the chapter chairman alone constitute or
work for the party generally.
The chapter executives were also
angered for all their sacrifice, costly efforts and painful contributions made
collectively and individually for the recorded successes of the party in the
State and National which have unfortunately gone without any compensation
throughout their eight years selfless services to the party. They wondered how
other party members will be encouraged to accept being appointed or elected as
chapter or ward executives’ in the future composition of the party structures
in the state as well as work hard for the party members of the chapter
executive therefore unanimously appealed to Governor Udom Emmanuel to come to
their rescue by empowering them as a show of appreciation and recognition for
his victory at the last governorship election in the State before the end of
their tenure.
However, it was learnt that the
chapter chairman, Evangelist Godwin David disclosed at the meeting how party
elders in the area failed submit to the list of nominees from the area to the
state governor for appointment as commissioner until the date the State
governor announced the names of his cabinet members, in spite of the hectic
process adopted by the elders in selecting the nominees from the three
geo-political zones in the area.
The chapter chairman also alerted his
executive members of the plan to constitute the chapter executive committee of
the party following the support and cooperation of the Transition Chairman, Mr.
Frank Archibong and the incumbent member representing Eket State constituency
in the State House of Assembly, Hon. David Lawrence Udofa. He attributed the
failure to put the committee in place for the past four years due to the
negative attitude of the former Local Government chairman and the outgone
member of the State House of Assembly from the area.
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