Today
during his welcome rally in Akwa Ibom state, Senator Godswill Akpabio revealed
that he has no intention to be the Senate President but he has the intention of
becoming what God wants him to be.
The
former Senate Minority Leader in an interview on Channels Television explained
further the reasons behind his defection from the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“I don’t have any intention of becoming
Senate President today. But I have the intention of becoming whatever God wants
me to be. My name is Godswill and I believe in the will of God. During my
campaign, consistently, I told the good people of Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria,
‘Let God’s will be done.’ I believe so much in the will of God and the will of
man.
Akpabio,
who was a former governor of Akwa-Ibom State under the PDP, said some of the
reasons behind his defection to the APC was that the PDP had no ‘reward system
for members who toiled for the party.’
“The Chairman of PDP is shocked, he thinks
I am moving against the tide but I am not. The problem with my erstwhile party,
the PDP, is that they didn’t have a reward system.
For
some of us that have stayed with the party and toiled with the party, there was
no reward system at all. I can’t imagine people who destroyed the party in 2015
just merely signifying their intention to return to the party and then we roll
out the drums and with so much pomp and pageantry we now celebrate them as
heroes of democracy and not destroyers of democracy.
They say they are back, I wonder what they
are coming to do in the party.”
Akpabio
officially announced his defection from the PDP to APC today at a rally
organised by the APC to welcome him into the ruling party in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa
Ibom State. The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed; National Leader of the
APC, Bola Tinubu; National Chairman of APC, Adams Oshiomhole were among those
present at the rally.
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