Ahead of the 2023 general elections, a new Interim Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Akwa Ibom APC Alliance (AAA) has actually been inaugurated on Friday, in Uyo, the state capital.

The objective of the committee, it was gathered, was to balance and unify the divergent interest of APC leaders in the state so regarding work towards winning the gubernatorial race in 2023.

It might be recalled that (AAA), while revealing the chairman of the interim committee, Engr Ime Mbom and the leader, Captain Larry Esin, on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, stated the formation of an interim committee became needed following the persistent crisis rocking APC in the state.

The Publicity Secretary, Captain Effiong Eyo, who spoke at the stakeholders’ meeting, stated they will no longer keep mute and permit fractionalization bedevilling the party cost them victory in 2023 elections as it did in 2019 in the state, hence the requirement to set up interim committee lacking members of the 4 warring factions.

According to him, “After broad consultations and conversations with members of our celebration, APC support groups and others for the way forward, we have all agreed that the APC in Akwa Ibom State ought to be administered by an interim committee devoid of any member of the 4 APC factions in the state. This will give us strength, love, unity, peace development and the needed strength to choose victory in the 2023 elections.”

Speaking after the inauguration, the new interim Chairman, Engr. Mbom, thanked members of the party for the confidence reposed in him even as he promised to appreciate the provisions of the celebration’s constitution.

Mbom guaranteed to join all the factions existing in the APC and ensure the brand-new interim executives work relentlessly to make sure the celebration takes control of the governorship seat in the state in 2023.

Addressing the newly-inaugurated interim executives of the Akwa Ibom APC, Mr. Eteyen Okwong, Special Assistant to the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, charged them to excuse all types of bitterness and sink their distinctions to cultivate unity in the celebration.

He mentioned: “The objective of this team is to unify the APC family so that in 2023 we can produce an APC governor in the interest of this state, so that we can move even more to change the misadventure we are currently seeing. So much is occurring currently in terms of bad governance and APC has to rearrange.”

Our correspondent reports that the inauguration of the Working Committee was experienced by stakeholders of the party from the 31 local government areas of the state.