Godswill Akpabio, senator
representing Akwa Ibom north-west, says some clergymen in Akwa Ibom state have
been casting aspersions on him since he defected to the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
In August, 2018, Akpabio who was
minority leader at the senate, resigned his position and renounced his
membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Responding to how his critics
have taken his decision to join APC, Akpabio said his defection overshadowed
every discussion in Akwa Ibom state and cast a spell of fear over the PDP who
started paying clergymen to lie against him.
“I am happy that God is not like
some of His priests,” he wrote in an article.
“Ever since I decamped to APC,
they have been praying against me and they have joined in peddling the lies
about me. Very well known Church prelates and Bishops that dined with me for 8
years while I was governor, despite my benevolence to them and their families
joined the fray calling me killer herdsman for joining APC.
“But some of these men of God
were in this same Country in 2012 when the farmers/herdsmen clashes claimed the
lives of over 1000 people in the Benue/Plateau/Mambilla axis. At that time, a
Christian was the President but was not accused of being a killer of
Christians. The farmers/herdsmen clashes predate Nigeria’s Independence.
“The clashes have occurred under
various leadership. Yet the “men of God” have been unconscionable in accusing
the current President of masterminding genocide against Christians because he
is a Muslim. I am happy that God does not condemn a man based on one man’s
testimony, but He sees the heart and judges our motives and intentions. Whether
one is a Christian or Muslim, we all worship the same God WHO will at the
appointed time judge us from our deeds in words and actions.”
Akpabio said in the course of
this election, he had been photo-shopped by propaganda merchants who told the
lies about him. He said his letterhead and signature had been forged by the
same merchants to write falsehood as if he wrote them.
He alleged that they conscripted
women from South Africa who claimed to be foreign observers and paid them to
lie that he detained them using thugs.
Akpabio also said he met Udom
Emmanuel , governor of the state, performing the duties of a deacon in Qua Iboe
Church, Surulere , Lagos, and he immediately adjudged that as a deacon, he
would superintend over the affairs of the state with the fear of God.
“Whether I was right or wrong is
for history to judge. Nevertheless I picked him to succeed me and by the grace
of God and the votes of Akwa Ibom electorates, he won the election. So God made
him governor,” he said.
The senator, who lost his
reelection bid, is currently at the tribunal.
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