Senator Akpabio Officially Moves To APC

Posted on August 8, 2018

MICHAEL AKINOLA

The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and senator representing Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has officially dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Akpabio officially defected to the ruling party today Wednesday, 8^th August, 2018 at the Ikot Ekpene township stadium in Akwa Ibom State.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Akpabio had been associating with the ruling party in the past few days even though he did not make his move official and had also resigned his position as the Senate minority leader before his official defection.

The APC National leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Honourable Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and other APC chieftains were at the event. No fewer than 30 APC’s senators and members of National Working Committee (NWC) were on hand to receive the ex-senate minority leader, Akpabio.

The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ahmed Lawan, who introduced his colleagues, spoke on Akpabio whom he described as a “nationalist and patriot who believes in Nigeria’s unity.”

He said, “This defection surpasses all other defections. This is a defection that has shaken the opposition Peoples Democratic Party”.

The former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, pledged to take the people of Akwa Ibom State and the South-South to the centre for meaningful visibility. He told the huge crowd that he decided to join APC because he discovered that President Muhammadu Buhari “is a man of integrity and a nationalist’’.

Akpabio said that he decided to join a party that would sweep away poverty and impunity. He said that he joined APC to help salvage the country.

“The country is at war and all the hands must be on deck to salvage the situation and not to aggravate it. As keepers of national emergency, everyone should put heads together. I decided to join to emancipate the people and provide succour for the people” Senator Akpabio said.