The current infraction rocking the Etim Ekpo Local Government Area Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been attributed to the multiple political ambition of the former Commissioner for Commerce and Investment, Barrister Emmanuel Enoidem.
According to sources in Etim Ekpo, the former Commissioner is already consulting with stakeholders in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District pleading with them to intervene so that the governor would consider him for the plum job of his deputy which in turn would prepare him adequately to contest the Senate seat in 2023 in case he fails to clinch the PDP National Legal Adviser position he is currently fighting for.
This latest move by the former State Treasurer of the PDP has pitched him against his kinsmen who felt he should relax for a while and allow other indigenes of the area the opportunity to serve in public office after his sixteen uninterrupted years as Commissioner.
Angered by what he called a confrontation, Enoidem took to the social media issuing messages abusing those who dared to challenge him. Those directly under his line of attack include the retired Deputy Inspector General of Police Udom Ekpoudom, Dr. Emmanuel Ukpong, Barrister Mbetobong Okpongete, Mr. Ekpuk Eshiet, Mr. Ubong Affia, Mr. Unyime Ekanem and Mr. Kingsley Uwah.
His grouse was the reaction of the stakeholders when he was said to have sponsored a publication which threatened the mass defect of Etim Ekpo people to the APC if the governor failed to return an indigene of the local government into the State Executive Council. According to sources, politicians under the aegis of the Coalition of Etim Ekpo Political Group issued a statement dissociating Etim Ekpo people from that sponsored publication. They accused him of using his ambition as a bargaining chip to issue a threat to the PDP led government. “The people told him in clear terms that Etim Ekpo was PDP and whoever had benefitted from the party for that lengthy period should not turn around to destroy the party because the government no longer favoured such person. There was nothing wrong with the reaction because Etim Ekpo people did not want the governor to see them as opposition which may deny them opportunities in the future. But Enoidem did not want to hear any of this because he is blinded already by his ambition,” he said adding that Etim Ekpo people were happy that the government had been magnanimous with them for sixteen years and there was no reason to move to anywhere because one man’s ambition was truncated.
The cold war has raised questions which the former Commissioner for Housing and Urban Renewal under the eight years administration of Godswill Akpabio is expected to answer. His kinsmen are now challenging him to name the number of projects he took to Etim Ekpo in the ten years he was a member of the State Exco. He is also asked to explain why he is sponsoring media campaign against the deputy governor if he is not interested in the office as he claimed recently. A close associate of Mr. Enoidem who preferred anonymity disclosed that they were the ones that built his profile as a philanthropist stressing that it was not in the character of Enoidem to empower anybody because of the fear that the person may turn around to challenge his authority. “Take a look a closer look at Etim Ekpo politicians that mill around him. Who among them can you honestly say has been empowered? Is the donation of a vehicle to someone who has no means of livelihood an empowerment or giving 500 youths One Million Naira to share? That is Enoidem the philanthropist for you,” he said.
Enoidem who is described by his Etim Ekpo people as a desperate and self-centered politician is known to be perfect in the use of the tool of blackmail to achieve his political aim. He is alleged to be involved in the downfall of several public officers in the Akpabio’s Cabinet whom he felt were too powerful because of their closeness. “Enoidem does not like anybody who is popular. He wants to be the only person everybody should look up to. Is that the person we should support to become a deputy governor when the incumbent is not found wanting. He just left office and he is finding it difficult already. Has he suddenly forgotten those of us that he frustrated because he wanted us to be beggars? He is the problem we are having in Etim Ekpo but we are ready to confront him now
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