Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom, has directed his commissioners and appointees to either defect with him to the All Progressives Congress (APC) or resign from their positions.
Eno gave the directive during the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday.
“It’s no more news that I’m moving party, if you don’t know that by now, I don’t know what else you know,” Eno said.
The governor told the commissioners and appointees that they were free to choose not to join him to the APC, but they would not be allowed to remain in his cabinet while in another party.
“You can’t be in my cabinet and play anti-party, it’s not a threat, it is what it is. I won’t beg you to come, you should normally not even expect it,” he told the appointees.
Eno explained that his decision to leave the PDP was due to the party’s internal crisis, which he believed could affect the smooth conduct of elections.
“I love the PDP, I want to stay in the PDP but clearly, I don’t have a road map to guarantee that I’ll be able to have a smooth sail in the elections.
”Every day, secretary this and that, and so you take your form, they send it to INEC, and then you run all the elections, you perhaps win the elections and just on technical ground, because the wrong person signed your form, you lose everything,” Governor Eno said.
The governor expressed confidence in the state’s ability to win elections, regardless of the party, due to the hard work done by his administration.
“In this state today, with the work that all of us have done, even if we contest on a zero party, we will win this election.
There’s no doubt about it. We’ve worked very hard,” Eno said.
