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Akanimo Udofia’s Governorship Ambition In Jeopardy?

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June 21, (THEWILL) – The gubernatorial ambition of businessman and socialite, Akanimo Udofia, may just be dead on arrival, if the issues surrounding his emergence as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom State are not resolved.

Besides aggrieved parties petitioning the National Headquarters of the APC and the state’s election committee calling for the cancellation of the exercise, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state is seemingly not recognising the exercise that produced Akanimo as the party’s governorship candidate. The electoral body is of the opinion that the primary did not hold and therefore, the party has no governorship candidate for the state in the 2023 general election.

INEC hinged its argument on the fact that on May 26, which was the day the APC primary purportedly took place, the commission’s monitoring team led by the Commissioner of Police arrived at the venue of the primary for the third time at 6:45 p.m. and did not meet anyone. They wondered how and where the primary was conducted and without its knowledge for Akanimo to have emerged winner.

As it turned out, there are two factions of the party in the state. While one faction is loyal to Senator Akpan James Udoedehe who has since dumped the party and picked up the governorship ticket of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), the other faction is loyal to the immediate past Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, who is himself battling to return to the Senate. Udofia is loyal to the latter faction.

And more important, how does he get himself out of this quagmire if his ambition must materialize?

A philanthropist of immense proportion, Udofia runs Desicon, one of Nigeria’s indigenous companies patronised by international oil companies in the petroleum sector in Nigeria. He is also the Chairman of Vision 2000 Ltd and a Director of SAIPEM Contracting Nigeria Ltd, a company with a huge structure covering all sorts of services to the oil & gas industry such as drilling on/offshore, construction activities on/offshore, engineering, maintenance.

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