Nigeria, May 18 -- A member of the Akwa Ibom State Executive Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Fabian Emmanuel, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) now dictates internal affairs of the PDP in the state, following Governor Umo Eno's defection to the APC.

Mr Emmanuel, the assistant organising secretary 1 of the PDP in Akwa Ibom and a member of the Nyesom Wike faction of the party, made the allegation in a Facebook post shared on Sunday.

He later deleted the post, apparently due to pressure.

In the post, Mr Emmanuel claimed that PDP aspirants in Akwa Ibom were prevented from obtaining nomination forms for the 2027 state assembly election due to directives allegedly favouring APC interests under the "Akw...