The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has accused Akwa Ibom State government and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of wasting the state’s funds that could better be used for developmental projects on vote buying.
Enang, who is also the Director-General of the All Progressives Congress (APC) campaign in the state, said this while addressing the press in Uyo on Friday.
He, however, urged the people to take the money from the PDP but vote for the APC in the forthcoming March 9 governorship/House of Assembly elections in order to connect the state with the Federal Government for more development.
“The PDP has sacrilegiously dealt with the treasury in this state- buying votes at great amount and have nothing to show on ground. I tell the people, when they come with your money, please take it.
“It is the money that they ought to have paid your pensions; it the money that they ought to have paid the school fees and bursary of your children; it is the money that they ought to have developed an infrastructure; it is the money that they ought to have completed some infrastructural projects; it is the money that they should have built some extra schools to develop you and your future. Please, collect the money but vote to link Akwa Ibom back to the channel of federal government,” he noted.
The presidential aide berated Mike Igini, the state INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, for acting like a contestant during the February 23 Presidential/National Assembly elections but not as an unbiased umpire as expected.
“I have, in the course of this campaign, tried to personally avoid castigating the Independent National Electoral Commission. I have aligned myself with all the campaigns that we as a party made against the Resident Electoral Commissioner and I had thought that in the course of the election that he would display what I thought I knew about him in terms of integrity, but the last elections of February 23 is the lowest low.
“I held him better than that, but it has been very disappointing that he descended so low and appeared as if he was and indeed a player on the pitch and not a refree or umpire as he should have been,” Enang said.
While urging the people not to be deterred by the defeat at the last election, Enang assured the people to vote for the APC as their votes will be protected and be made to count this time.
He said “I urge the people of the All Progressives Congress and voters in Akwa Ibom State to maintain, sustain and keep up with the spirit that they had in the APC gubernatorial candidate, Obong Nsima Ekere and the running mate.”
