Politics
A leader of the South-South chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called for the expulsion of Aisha Alhassan, minister of Women Affairs and Social Development.
Ntufam Hiliard Eta, the national vice chairman, South-South, of the APC, who made the call, described her open support for an Atiku Abubakar presidency in 2019 as the “highest level of disloyalty.”
Eta made the call during an interaction with newsmen in Calabar, Cross River State on Sunday, September 10, after a thanksgiving service at St Charles Lwanga Parish, Essien for the safe return of President Muhammadu Buhari to the country after a long period of medical treatment in the United Kingdom.
He said: “I think that what she has done is the highest level of disloyalty. I believe that as somebody who believes as strongly as she does about her support for Atiku, the best and most honourable thing to do would be to resign and begin the campaign for the Atiku presidency.
“But for you to sit in a Buhari Presidency and be talking about the presidency of another person, it smacks of irresponsibility and as a member of the National Working Committee I would do my utmost to make sure she is sanctioned as a member of that government. I would call for her suspension or even expulsion from the party.”
On 2019 in Cross River State, he promised to work hard to ensure that the APC takes over government. “What we have here is mis-governance or lack of governance. There is no government in Cross River State. Since the House of Assembly has become an ally in the mis-governance of the state, we will wait until 2019 when we would have the opportunity of effecting a change. I am very sure that APC will win in Cross River in 2019. If there is anything I know of, it is that Cross River would not remain in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2019.”
Eta thanked God for President Buhari, saying: “We have to be thankful that this man that has done so much for Cross River State and has planned to do much more is still alive with us. A lot of people had wished him to be dead, we are very grateful to God that he is alive today to continue with his good work for Nigeria.”
– Sept 11, 2017 @ 10:27 GMT /
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