Don’t waste your money at election tribunal | Akpabio has a word for the losers

by Azubuike Azikiwe

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, has advised defeated governorship candidates in the 2015 general elections, against wasting their time, effort and money at the election tribunal.

According to Akpabio, any governorship candidate that does not have the endorsement of the labour force in the state, cannot be successful at the polls.

During the May Day celebration in Uyo on Friday, the governor stated that the state’s workers collectively endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Udom Emmanuel, hence his victory at the polls.

He said, “For those who lost the elections and are still clamouring to go to tribunal, I want to remind them that nobody, I repeat nobody has ever been governor of Akwa Ibom State except the labour force in Akwa Ibom approved of him in advance.

“In 2007 the labour force in Akwa Ibom State endorsed me; in 1999 the labour force endorsed former governor Victor Attah; in 2003 the labour force still endorsed Obong Attah for a second term. In 2007 the labour force in advance endorsed me despite the fact that we were 57 aspirants and I was successful. And in 2011, the labour force, despite all the politicking came together and endorsed me for a second term and I won.

“In 2014, the labour force came together and by early 2015, long before the first elections, they endorsed Udom Emmanuel. The labour force represents voters in every family, in every unit, in every ward, and in every local government across the entire state: you cannot make it on your own unless the owners of the state, the workers endorse you.

“So, today we have a governor-elect; my appeal to you all is forget about tribunal; do not waste money in the tribunal because you cannot change the hands of the clock.

“God has spoken through the people, God has spoken through the workers, come back and join your people to build your state. Let us solidarise with the governor-elect of the state and all the elected representatives and ensure peace and harmony in Akwa Ibom State.”

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