Nigeria, Dec. 8 -- Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State has declared that only members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with names in the party register will qualify for government contracts and appointments - a sharp departure from his earlier promise of bipartisan governance when he defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Mr Eno made the declaration on 29 November while addressing select party elders at Ukana, Essien Udim - the home of Senate President Godswill Akpabio - signalling what appears to be a complete ideological surrender to the man he once politically opposed.

"We've taken the party register, and we are going to look at it and see whose name is not there. Like you are aware, we've since dissolved the boards,...