The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State has no governorship candidate for the 2023 general elections.
This was part of a report by the Akwa Ibom State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mike Igini, to the INEC headquarters.
Igini said: “We wish to report that the APC governorship primary scheduled to hold on Thursday, May 26, 2022, at the Sheergrace Arena, Nsikak Eduok Avenue, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State did not hold at all,” Mr Igini said in a letter to INEC headquarters in Abuja dated May 27.”
According to the report, the commission’s monitoring team, led by Igini, in the company of the Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, Andrew Amiengheme, arrived at the venue of the primary for the third time at 6:45pm without seeing anyone.
Igini and Amiengheme were informed that the party’s election committee members were held up by an angry group of APC members along a major road in Uyo.
The operatives of the Department of State Services later rescued the APC election officials and took them to their office in Uyo.
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