2019 guber: I don’t have plan to challenge Udom –Dan-Abia

<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2rJMdC9tNMZ4y6QtNmd-Xun286XLqYR5Kj1DuyYFvTOScPe9wmg1xWgLrjXBMP6AE9pgdwGDPvThLPOCpquCDgaVhYf_t4BJtmT0ZhkIx2qESU49iEavZTuJTzKmynyZ4EeBFZGT362C/s2560/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij2rJMdC9tNMZ4y6QtNmd-Xun286XLqYR5Kj1DuyYFvTOScPe9wmg1xWgLrjXBMP6AE9pgdwGDPvThLPOCpquCDgaVhYf_t4BJtmT0ZhkIx2qESU49iEavZTuJTzKmynyZ4EeBFZGT362C/s640/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"/></a>Former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Bassey Dan-Abia, yesterday, said he has no plan to challenge Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel in 2019.<br/> Dan-Abia, who served in the state executive council during Obong Victor Attah and Godswill Akpabio’s administrations before his appointment as NDDC helmsman, was alleged to have joined the 2019 governorship race.<br/> However, a member representing Esit Eket-Ibeno State Constituency and Dan-Abia’s confidant, Mr Usoro Akpanusoh, who denied the allegation, told Daily Sun that nothing could be farther from the truth.<br/> <br/> Akpanusoh described the allegation as cheap blackmail orchestrated by agents of doom whose motive was to cause disaffection between Dan-Abia and Governor Emmanuel.<br/> “The enemies of progress can sell a dummy, even to opposition supporters and the general public.<br/> “Their failed strategy was to divide, weaken and disenchant the people with the Emmanuel-led administration and, thereby, destabilise the state.<br/> “There is no doubt that much as we would like to overlook this act as a product of political hatred, however, given the harsh realities of our time and the resentment and anger from such frustration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible to do so.”<br/> He challenged his people to rise and get to the root of “this bitterness that has never been part of us.”<br/> Akpanusoh, however, cautioned those using blackmail as a tool for political appointment to refrain from it, saying: “Whosoever is seeking political appointment from the present government should not use blackmail as a tool to achieve his or her ambition.”</div>

2019 guber: I don’t have plan to challenge Udom –Dan-Abia

Former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Bassey Dan-Abia, yesterday, said he has no plan to challenge ...

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