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Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-05-2018 Governor Udom lambasts Senator Akpabio, as PDP mourns exit of senate minority leader. Gov. Udom Emmanuel has dismissed his estranged godfather and Senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, as a greedy, insatiable man who wanted him to be his puppet. He was addressing an emergency PDP stakeholders meeting summoned to address the exit of the former governor from the party. He told the meeting that he couldn’t surrender the government to the former governor to run from Abuja, hence, their parting of ways. He told the meeting that he did everything to please Akpabio but that he couldn’t be satisfied. He opened up to the meeting that he had to resort to legal tactics to stop the EFCC from probing how the former governor spent state funds when he was in power but yet he couldn’t be satisfied. The governor said his estranged godfather is too proud, egoistic and arrogant and that it took him a lot to condone him. But some of the stakeholders who spoke at the meeting lamented that the party is in big trouble in the state as so many people may follow Akpabio to APC. A lawmaker hinted that some members of the house of Assembly are on their way out of the party. The meeting agreed that some chieftains of the party be watch listed as they may be moles for Akpabio who’s all out to dislodge Udom from power come next election. On the 2019 election, the governor told the meeting to brace up for tough and rough times as they are plans by the APC to rig him out of power using federal might and INEC. The governor was advised to rid the government of all the Akpabio men. The Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, is defecting from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a presidential aide has said. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, posted a message on Facebook, Saturday night, saying that Mr Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and other top leaders of the party at a rally in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom state. https://www.thekillerpunch.com/governor-udom-lambasts-senator-akpabio-pdp-mourns-exit-senate-minority-leader/amp/ RE: Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-05-2018 Yesterday, reports came that Senator Akpabio was decamping and leaving the PDP For the APC. He took time to visit the President, Muhammad Buhari this morning http://thepunditng.com/pictures-of-minority-leader-senator-akpabio-in-london-this-morning/ RE: Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-05-2018 Quote:All things being equal, former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, may leave the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) this week and join the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a presidential aide has disclosed. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/08/05/akpabio-visits-buhari-in-london-set-to-quit-pdp-for-apc/amp RE: Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-06-2018 Akpabio meets Buhari in London: Strikes Senate Presidency deal, more than 10 House of assembly members to defect with him. Embattled former governor of Akwa Ibom state, MR Godswill Akpabio, has finally met with President Muhammadu Buhari in London after striking a deal that has cemented his defection move to the ruling All Progressives Congress last Friday. Propellerng.com learnt on good authority that a deal has been struck between the APC and Akpabio that the former governor be made to succeed Mr Bukola Saraki as senate president after he (Akpabio) delivers Akwa Ibom state to the APC in the 2019 election. Propeller Newspapers had last week exclusively reported Akpabio’s planned exit from the Peoples Democratic Party, the platform on which he served as governor for 8 years and was subsequently elected senate minority leader in 2015. Akpabio had recently faced threats of arrests by the country’s anti-graft agencies on grounds of massive corruption during his reign as governor if he failed to defect to support the president in 2018. Sources close to the former governor accuse incumbent Governor Udom Emmanuel of not doing enough to protect Akpabio from the ruling party’s threats. ”Udom betrayed Akpabio by opening him up to the scavenging federal government. He didn’t do enough to cover the tracks, and this is the result”, one of Akpabio’s senior aides said in an anonymous interview granted Propeller Newspapers Saturday night. According to him, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission “could not have come this close to unearthing everything during Oga’s era if Udom had not maliciously cooperated with them by allowing them unrestrained access to classified financial documents”, the aide said referring to the massive thievery and misappropriation of public funds during the Akpabio era. More than 800billion Naira is believed to have been stolen by Akpabio and his cronies within 8 years. Authentic sources confirm that the EFCC have evidences of foreign currencies stashed away by Akpabio in his country home and in foreign nations which they believe is part of the stolen resources of the state. But rather than press charges against him, “they seek to take political advantage of the helpless man by forcing him to work for the APC in 2019”, a top government functionary in Abuja confided in our Group Political Editor last week. Akpabio to defect on Wednesday with 5 House of Reps, more than 10 House of assembly members. __________ In an exclusive chat last night with Propeller Newspapers, presidential aide and former senator Ita Enang has confirmed the defection of senate minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, to the All Progressives Congress (APC). “I can confirm that he is coming to the All Progressives Congress. There will be a grand reception for His Excellency (Akpabio) on Wednesday and for others who will be coming with him.” Propeller Newspapers can confirm that former Governor Akpabio was today issued his membership card of the ruling party. We can also confirm that some political heavyweights mostly from Ikot Ekpene senatorial district are moving with Akpabio to the APC. They include former works commissioner in the state, Mr Don Etim, former senator Effiong Bob, Leader of the House, Mr Udo Kieran Akpan, former Speaker and House of Reps member for Etinan Federal Constituency, Mr Sam Ikon, respective House of Reps members from Abak and Essien Edim/Etim Ekpo/Ika, Mr Emmanuel Akpan and Mr Emmanuel Ekon, former Information Commissioner, Mr Aniekan Umanah, state House of Assembly members, Nse Ntuen, Usoro Akpanusoh, Aniekan Uko, Aniekan Bassey, Idongesit Ntekpere, Uduak Ududoh, Mark Esset, among others. At least 10 house members are said to be ready to defect to the APC with Akpabio. Also defecting are Mr Victor Antai, serving commissioner for Culture and Tourism in the state as well as Ibanga Akpabio, commissioner for Labour and Manpower Development. Chairmen of Ikot Ekpene and Essien Udim are said to have also signed on to the defection plan. Speaker Onofiok Luke and Senator Bassey Albert are said to have defied Akpabio’s request to move with them to the APC. In a meeting with stakeholders of the PDP at the banquet hall of government house on Saturday night, Governor Udom Emmanuel called on partymen to brace for a “rough and tough” battle in 2019. https://www.thekillerpunch.com/akpabio-meets-buhari-in-london-strikes-senate-presidency-deal-more-than-10-house-of-assembly-members-to-defect-with-him/amp/ RE: Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-06-2018 Quote:Just In: Akwa Ibom PDP loses deputy governor Moses Ekpo to APC http://www.nan.ng/news/just-in-akwa-ibom-loses-deputy-governor-moses-ekpo-to-apc/amp/ RE: Udom Lambasts Senator Akpabio, As PDP Mourns Exit Of Senate Minority Leader - Edoman - 08-06-2018 Amaechi speaks on Senator Akpabio’s defection from PDP to APCPublished on August 5, 2018 By Seun Opejobi Rotimi Amaechi,the Minister of Transportation, has confirmed that the Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, will soon dump the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. Amaechi, who is the Director-General of President Muhammed Buhari’s campaign organization, made the confirmation in a chat with Sahara Reporters. “I saw him and he confirmed but I don’t know about the date,” the report quoted Amaechi as saying. Akpabio was former two-term governor of Akwa Ibom State. President Buhari’s Special Assistant on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla, had yesterday disclosed in a Facebook post that Akpabio will be received into APC on Thursday by the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and other top leaders of the party at a rally in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom state. http://dailypost.ng/2018/08/05/amaechi-speaks-senator-akpabios-defection-pdp-apc/ |