It Will Take the PDP Many Years to Bounce Back Again - Senator Etok

Posted by Thandiubani on Thu 14th Jan, 2016 - tori.ng

A former Peoples Democratic Party member who defected from the party to the All Progressives Congress has given details why it will take PDP many years to recover from the defeat APC dealt it.

Senator, Aloysius Etok

A former Senator, Aloysius Etok (Ikot Ekpene) has revealed in details why it will take the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) donkey years to recover from the defeat dealt it by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Etok, who recently defected from the PDP to the APC said on Thursday in Uyo, that the lawlessness and impunity in the party were major reasons many people are leaving the party.

His words, “Impunity, lawlessness and arrogance; these things made them to move away from the people and became very far away from the people. How will you expect the North-East to vote for PDP realizing that the party people played pranks with their lives?

“Even as a senator, I feel the pains that I joined in approving the international loan of one billion dollars and the money was taken and shared among people.

You can fool people sometimes but you cannot fool them all the

time.

“If there is a rerun in Akwa Ibom the election will respect all the laws covering the election and will not be done in the usual way, So you cannot say who will actually win because for one, you must be able to get the people to come out”

However, Etok has received a good washing by the Akwa Ibom state commissioner for Information and Communication Mr Aniekan Umanah who accused him of defecting for his own selfish reasons.

“When Etok lost his bid for third term as a senator for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district he never participated in anything again. It was clear that he had left the party even before now. So the detectors are an assemblage of people who are aggrieved either because they didn’t get third term or they didn’t get certain position” Umanah stressed.