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With the appointment of Obong Umana Okon Umana, technocrat and financial expert, as the new Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, the Niger Delta Elders’ Forum
Senator Godwin Akpabio and Senator John Udoedehe
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Sun Apr 18 2021
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State is currently without a political leader owing to the contention among party stakeholders about who their leader should be.
The party leadership was never in contention as the National Caretaker Secretary of APC, Senator John Udoedehe, was widely held and celebrated to be the party’s leader in the state.
Udoedehe not only brought APC into Akwa Ibom but he had over the years built a strong base of supporters who have always supported his candidacy as the gubernatorial candidate of the APC.
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One faction of the party led by a former military administrator of Rivers and Ogun states, Group Captain Sam Ewang (retd), had last month endorsed Akpabio as the leader of the party in the state.
But at an enlarged second stakeholders’ meeting attended by the National Caretaker Secretary of the APC, Senator John Akpanuodehe; Managing Director of Oil and Gas Free Trade Zone Authority, Obong Umana Umana; Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Ita Enang; Sole Administrator of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Efiong Akwa; and Group Captain Sam Ewang (retd) among others, held in Uyo, Akpabio who was absent at the meeting but sent an apology letter, was rejected as leader of the party.