Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area have withdrawn from the process of electing a Chairmanship candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party in Ikot Ekpene.
The stakeholders which include statutory and ad hoc delegates of the party led by Senator Emmanuel Ibokessien made their withdrawal known today while addressing the press in Uyo.
They noted that the reason for the withdrawal is on the backdrop of irregularities and abnormalities in the exercise.
According to them, the statutory delegates and the ad hoc delegates who were duly elected on 16th September 2017 at the PDP Congress in all the Wards in Ikot Ekpene for primaries to elect a Chairmanship flag bearer for the party were not used.
The Stakeholders pointed out that to their surprise, strange names were read on AKBC Radio today as being the authentic delegates for the exercise.
They added " The announcement on AKBC Radio today 18th September 2017 is a complete disrespect to the people's mandate as elected delegates were not announced and therefore disenfranchised from the exercise.
"We the undersigned stakeholders, Chairmanship Aspirants and the Statutory delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ikot Ekpene therefore reject in totality the purported election of today, 18th September 2017 held at the Uyo Sports Stadium, and call for the cancellation, to allow for a fair and due process to follow to safeguard the winning of the forth coming election in Ikot Ekpene ".
The stakeholders explained that their protest was not a gesture to suggest they were defecting from the party rather they poised on exhausting all rectifying mechanism within the party structure.
BY Ekemini Simon
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