Former Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has called on State Governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to surrender their various states to President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the presidential election.
The Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District made the call on Friday at the presidential campaign flag-off of the President in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital. He explained that the 2019 election is all about integrity which he said the President has. He also declared Akwa Ibom state as the South-South capital of the ruling party.
“We thank the national leadership of our party for choosing Akwa-Ibom state to flag off the 2019 presidential campaign,” Akpabio said at the rally. Uyo is now the capital of APC in the south-south. We are taking over from southern Nigeria.
“The 2019 election is all about integrity versus others. Mr. President has the integrity to continue in office. He has completed many projects he met on ground, initiating new ones and that is why we are going to run the APC presidential election in this country on the basis of performance.
“Other states, like the PDP states that have done nothing should surrender even before the election. They should surrender before February,” he added.
Akpabio had served as the Akwa Ibom State Governor from 2007-2015 before his election as senator in 2015. At the Senate, he rose to become the Minority Leader before his resignation and subsequent defection to the ALL Progressives Congress, APC.
