I had argued that in Nigeria, governors can change man to woman while a President can change man to a hermaphrodite and vice versa. This perhaps explains why governors who are supposed to be suzerains of democratic ethos rule with impunity; many of them in a brazen manner, desecrate their political parties' constitutions, turn their zoning formulae upside-down. This arbitrariness has forced some political analysts to dub governors as the greatest threat to democracy in Nigeria!
The Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Obong Godswill Akpabio is reputed for absolute use of power. So when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) apparatchik in 2011, zoned the 2015 Ikot- Ekpene Senatorial Seat to Abak division on account that even though the division is the most populous and can on its own, produce a senator without the votes of the other axis, only Senator Itak Bob Ekarika had occupied the position for a single term from the Abak axis since the return of civil rule in 1999.
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