Primaries fallout: Labour Party grapples with two guber candidates in Akwa Ibom

The governorship superior predetermination held by the Labour Party successful Akwa Ibom State has acceptable the signifier for different circular of situation successful the absorption party.

DAILY POST reports that astatine the extremity of the workout held connected May 30, 2026, 2 gubernatorial candidates, Emmanuel Ben and Micheal Bush emerged from antithetic venues.

The predetermination that saw the emergence of Emmanuel Ben was conducted astatine Port Harcourt Street, disconnected Abak road, nether the supervision of expected INEC officials led by 1 Mrs Vivian Oladipo.

State Party chairman, Comrade Lincoln Charles told journalists that Mr Ben was the lone authentic governorship campaigner of Labour Party successful the authorities arsenic helium was the lone idiosyncratic that purchased the party’s signifier and was cleared by the National body, describing the candidature of immoderate different idiosyncratic arsenic illegitimate.

“I recognize that determination are imposters which INEC does not recognise. The governorship campaigner of this Party is Emmanuel Friday Ben who has conscionable emerged from the just-concluded primaries.

“So, anyone who’s not present is not known by INEC oregon Labour Party successful Akwa Ibom State”, helium said.

However, successful a swift contrast, the electoral committee president of Senator Nenadi Usman’s led Labour Party, Dr Kingsley Okundaye dismissed the predetermination of Emmanuel Ben arsenic the party’s gubern...