APC Will Take Over Akwa Ibom In 2027 – Ex-presidential Aide

Monday February 3, 2025 | TheNewsDESK

Former presidential aide on National Assembly Matters and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ita Enang, said the party will take over governorship from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom State in 2027.

Mr Enang, a former senator, stated this in a telephone interview with PREMIUM TIMES on 21 January.

The former senator was originally a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a platform he served for three terms as a member of the House of Representatives and one term in the Senate before defecting to Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Enang was reacting to the Akwa Ibom PDP’s declaration of Governor Umo Eno as the party’s sole candidate ahead of the 2027 governorship election in the state.

“It is an internal affair of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that they can adopt him. It is not a thing to worry about, but it is domestic to PDP. They (PDP) can decide who they want.

“Is it Anyanwu as the secretary or the other person from Enugu State that will sign the nomination form, and which National Working Committee are they under,” he said, making jest of the current crisis in Nigeria’s main opposition party, where Sunday Ude-Okoye and Samuel Anyanwu are claiming to be secretary of the party.

“Whatever the PDP does as an internal affair does not concern us. And the PDP has always been known to have a constricted democratic space. They have never allowed democracy to thrive,” he said.

The former senator said the APC is intact in Akwa Ibom and has no such problem.