The Media Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Campaign Council in Cross River State has dismissed the purported adoption of
the factional governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator
John Owan Enoh, by some 15 governorship candidates in the state as a ruse,
describing it as the biggest scam of 2019 and a bogus New Year gift he could
ever offer his supporters.
The committee in a statement signed by its Secretary, Mr. Christian Ita, said
it is not surprised that eight of the so-called 15 candidates are already
distancing themselves from the purported endorsement.
It accused the senator representing the Central Senatorial District of the
state of flying the validation kite, having seen that not only is his
candidature enmeshed in acceptability crisis within his party, but that his
floundering campaign has failed to gain traction and the necessary followership
he had expected.
According to Statement, “This is clearly an act of desperation by Owan Enoh. It
is a febrile attempt to hoodwink his supporters and create the impression that
his flustering campaign is gaining impetus, when in actual sense he is still
grappling with the challenge of acceptability by the generality of his disparate
APC family. There is no doubt that even the undiscerning within his fold know
that he is merely trying to pull the wool over the eyes of a motley of his
supporters who are yet to see through his already vanquished and vanishing
aspiration.”
Insisting that Owan Enoh has nothing to offer the state, given his 20 years of
political representation since 1999, PDP urged Cross Riverians to be wary of
the factional APC candidate. “Owan Enohs adventurism is already a failed
project. It is indeed sad that for someone seeking to govern Cross River, his
first outing in the new year is to scam the people with his adoption claims.
Seriously, we think it is time Cross Riverians saw through his duplicity and
shenanigans.
His proclivity to deceive has shamefully been exposed by eight of the so called
fifteen governorship aspirants who have since dissociated themselves from the
purported acceptance.”
Accusing the senator of self-seeking, the group tasked Cross Riverians,
particularly those from the Central Senatorial District, where Owan has
represented for the past 20 years to challenge him on his track record of
democracy deliverables as House of Assembly, three-time House of
Representatives member and senator, insisting that the embattled factional
governorship candidate is merely seeking to add to his CV the title of former
governorship candidate.
“Owan knows full well that his campaign is already in tatters and the only way
to force himself into the consciousness of a handful of his followers who will
soon abandon him the way others have done is to sell them a dummy. This is the
height of fraud.”
According to the statement, neither Governor Ayade nor the PDP in the state is
losing sleep over the fictive endorsement of Owan Enoh. It therefore, urged PDP
supporters and indeed, Cross Riverians to dismiss the claim as a hoax and
another of the senators fraudulent ploy to wrench political relevance.