Godswill Akpabio, former governor
of Akwa Ibom state, has officially defected from the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking at an APC rally
organised in the state on Wednesday, the former senate minority leader said he
joined the ruling party to take the south-south to the centre.
He added that he moved to the APC
alongside the members of the national
assembly from the state “because of the interest of the people of the state.”
The senator also accused some of
his colleagues who were at the National Assembly Complex on Tuesday of taking
tramadol.
He wondered why the lawmakers
would be there when the national assembly is on recess.
He was particular on the case of
Ben Bruce, senator representing Bayelsa east, who alleged he was behind the
alleged plot to impeach Senate President Bukola Saraki.
The senator said: “I shouldn’t
have mentioned his name but because he believes in lies, Ben Bruce, he should
come and complete the Tropicana, a tourist facility in Akwa Ibom. How can I
stay in my house and he starts shouting that I am in the national assembly just
to damage my name?
“I was inside a plane to join you
yesterday and he was shouting look at what Akpabio is doing to us.
“I cannot be a terrorist. I don’t
know what they were doing at the national assembly. Some of them went there and
were without shoes. I am a man of peace.
“I even called security to help
take them home, because some of them must have taken Tramadol. Please, I was
never at the national assembly. By right, they should be at home because we are
on recess.”
‘PDP WELCOMING DESTROYERS’
The senator further accused his
former party of welcoming those that “destroyed” it during the 2015 elections.
He said this was part of why he
left the party.
“I have taken the decision to be
here today in the national interest. My brothers that I have left behind in the
PDP, I know I should say ‘heeyaah’,” he said, adding: “But I thank the PDP that
gave me the platform to come and stand with you. And I want the PDP to have a
reward system.”
“In the PDP, I was so shocked
when one of those who destroyed our party in 2015 brought some and take a hall
in Hilton for a party. I said what is going on? I am the leader and I am not
aware. They said we are welcoming defectors.
“And I asked, are you welcoming
destroyers or defectors. This party cannot work. Do you want these people to
destroy you again. Then they later raised the hand of one of them and said this
is the national leader of the party. Immediately, in my honour, I put in my
resignation and said I am no longer the national leader of the party.”
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