OBA ASSURES SUPPORTERS OF VICTORY AHEAD, CHARGES THEM TO REMAIN FOCUSED

By Anny Michaels

Akwa Ibom frontline governorship hopeful, Senator Bassey Albert (OBA) has assured his teeming supporters that he is still in the race to the Hilltop Mansion, urging them not to be deterred by recent happenings in the polity.

The Senator, while speaking on Arise Television news interview on May 25, 2022, also charged them to be focused on the goal,  describing the PDP Governorship primaries earlier held at Godswill Akpabio international Stadium, Uyo on Wednesday as a sham.

OBA noted that he, along with over 70 other aspirants to various elective offices,  had written to the National leadership of PDP regarding the faulty foundation that led to the primaries, a reason they boycotted the election.

According to him, as law abiding citizens, they decided to obey a valid court decision, which ordered that the parties in a suit before the Federal High Court, Abuja, should maintain status quo ante bellum.

The implication of the decision, according to OBA, is that since the order affected the processes which produced the adhoc delegates, PDP technically has no candidate since there was no valid one to vote during the primaries. 

He noted that from his understanding, both the parallel governorship primary organised by Hon Mike Enyong and the one held by a PDP faction at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium were invalid,  in the eyes of the law.

He said as a lawmaker, he could not get involved in promoting illegality, expressing the confidence that when PDP is ready to carry out a proper primary, he and other aggrieved aspirants  will participate.

OBA decried the current crime-ridden situation in PDP nationally, saying it is not helping in strengthening the internal democracy in the party.

Senator Akpan, who is one of the 15 PDP governorship aspirants cleared to contest  in Akwa Ibom, however called on his teeming supporters to remain hopeful, insisting that he was still in the race to win.

OBA, the current Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (upstream), corroborated an earlier statement made available by his campaign Spokesman, Dr Usoro I. Usoro, that it was expedient to strongly assure all his teeming supporters that there is no cause for alarm as he and the entire leadership of his campaign organisation were working hard to actualise their “predestined victory”.

The Statement had urged his allies to “continue to remain faithful, calm and prayerful for our God is able to do that which seems impossible to man''