Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has hailed Godswill Akpabio
for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
Speaking at an APC rally in Akwa
Ibom on Wednesday, he accused the PDP of robbing Nigerians during its 16 years
in power.
Akpabio served his two terms as
governor under the PDP and was commissioner in three different ministries,
still under PDP.
Addressing Akwa Ibom people at
the rally, Oshiomhole said: “Please don’t be deceived. These are very tempting
moments. Nigerians will know the difference between party A and party B.
“I ask you, if a seasoned
notorious armed robber who has been robbing you for 16 years; they tripled the
robbery, they digitised the robbery… When you kick them out of office, they
sponsor confusion here and there.
“But the people are saying no
matter how you sponsor, we can see behind the facts.”
He also said Akpabio did what
Senate President Bukola Saraki is “afraid to do” by resigning as senate
minority leader.
Oshiomhole had asked Saraki to
step down on the grounds that the PDP, said to be the minority, cannot produce
him as a principal officer.
At the rally where Akpabio was welcomed
into the ruling party, he hailed the senator for “sacrificing” his title as
minority leader to join the “the party of progressives.”
“I believe he (Akpabio) did what
others are afraid to do. He said to people who have been deceiving others,
thank you so much for giving me the opportunity as the minority leader of the
PDP in the senate,” he said.
“After listening to the yearnings
of his people, he said he is ready to sacrifice the title of minority leader to
join the APC. He must first surrender the crown back to the PDP for whatever it
is what.
“Godswill, you have shown by
example that there are indeed many distinguished senators who are actually
distinguished in every sense of the word; by doing what I am afraid senator
Bukola Saraki is afraid to do.
“Somebody asked me what was I
going to do in Akwa Ibom, and I said I was going to receive am uncommon
defector.
“There are ordinary defectors who
are afraid; they want to move but they want to steal the crown. Then we have an
uncommon defector who decided he will give to PDP what belongs to them so that
he can walk with honour on his head.”
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