Senator Akpabio reveals why politicians will no longer leave APC for PDP
Former Minority Leader in the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has claimed that his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will stem the tide of movements from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking on Channels Television’s Roadmap 2019 on Monday night, Akpabio claimed people were shocked he left the opposition party and joined the APC.
“People cannot get over the fact that I have moved, even me. I am as surprised as they are.
“I can’t apologise for moving, I moved to stem the tide of movements.
“Any movement from the PDP now would be towards me (APC), but not much movement would be from the APC to PDP,” the former Akwa Ibom Governor said.
“We need to have Nigeria before we can have the election. These things are as a result of continuous conspiracies against government and all sorts of things.”
Several top members of the APC, including Senate President Bukola Saraki and the governors Benue, Kwara, and Sokoto defected from the party recently.
All of them accused the APC of failing to keep its promises to the nation and attributed their defection to national interest.
But Akpabio faulted their motives, insisting they had nothing to do with national interest.
The former Senate Minority leader who had recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC recently himself, however, attributed his own decision to the national interest.
He said, “I don’t think that the movements that we saw from the APC to my then party were prompted by national interest, I think most of those things were based on the personal interest of individuals.”
“I just assessed the situation and I said I needed to contribute my quota towards stabilising the situation; towards ensuring that people realise that it wasn’t all about a conspiracy to bring down a government but to conspire to resolve the security situation.”
Ahead of the 2019 elections, Senator Akpabio urged leaders in the country to shift their attention from political interest and work for the good of the people.
He also advised the critics of President Buhari’s administration to support the government to tackle insecurity and other challenges of the nation rather than coming together to take over power at the centre.
Akpabio said, “We need to have Nigeria before we can have an election. We should conspire to provide employment opportunities.”
“We should conspire to stabilise the government, to ensure that we leave a better future for our children. We should conspire to bring food to the table of Nigerians; not to conspire to just take government for the sake of taking government.”
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), had last week declared that Akpabio’s defection to the APC, would not save him from probe.
Sagay stated that those whose cases had already been taken to court would continue to face prosecution.
The senior lawyer, however, said there was room for plea bargain, an option he noted stubborn people would never use.
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