Former Akwa Ibom Governor retires from Politics also slams PDP

Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Victor Attah Obong, has retired from partisan politics as he bowed out from the Peoples Democratic Party, a party on whose platform he ruled as governor.

  

Attah, who was a member of PDP Board of Trustees, said he would be playing the role of an elder statesman to “continue to serve this country with love, strength, and faith”.

According to him,the party did not adhere to the ideals of democracy, noting that for the party to bounce back it must stop looking for who to blame, but rather restructure its system of operation.

“Who does not know that you only conduct election to fill a vacancy. But the PDP would start by announcing that there is no vacancy. Then it would offer ‘automatic tickets’ to a set of people. What manner of democracy” Premiumtimes quoted him.

 Attah also attacked the PDP over the emrgence of his successor’s successor, Udom Emmanuel. He said Mr Udom was imposed on the people of the state and described the 8 years rule of his successor, Godwill Akapbio as “eight locust years”.

“Can the national publicity secretary of PDP, an eminent member of the National Working Committee that he is, point to anything in the constitution of the PDP that suggests that it is the wife of an incumbent governor that should nominate her husband’s successor, and having been so nominated, that the party should put its full weight behind the incumbent governor to impose the nominee on the state as his successor?” he quizzed.