Some Akwa Ibom leaders have condemned the comments credited to Senator Godswill Akpabio that he would turn Akwa Ibom into a war zone and make it a conquered territory in 2019.
They vowed that they would resist such attempts to instigate crisis and violence in the state.
The elders said this last Monday in Onna during a mega endorsement rally in honour of the state Governor, Udom Emmanuel.
They urged Emmanuel not to be distracted by the antics of the opposition who had vowed to capture the state by all means with the use of ‘federal might’.
A former National Assembly member and former Minister of Lands and Housing, Chief Nduese Essien, who described the governor as a prudent manager of state resources, warned against any threat of resort to federal might to rig election in Akwa Ibom, saying Akwa Ibom people would resist such attempt.
“Let them bring federal might and develop our state not to rig election, we will resist every attempt to rig election in 2019,” Essien said.
This view was collaborated by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas, and member representing Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Bassey Albert.
He said “They have vowed to use federal might on us but no federal might will work on us. Akwa Ibom is PDP. God says I will upturn and upturn and upturn until his will is established. Power belongs to God. You are a divine choice of God for this state and there is nothing the power of man can do about that”.
Akpabio had while speaking at a funeral service in Enugu, reportedly told the gathering that if it meant using war to capture Akwa Ibom for the APC, he was prepared to do so in a similar manner German Junta Adolf Hitler invaded Warsaw, Poland in 1940, leaving more than 600,000 dead.
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