Former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio has pledged to galvanize grassroots support in Akwa Ibom state and beyond to ensure that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu wins next year’s election. Akpabio, who is the APC candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, said making Tinubu the next president is a task that must be accomplished for security and prosperity of Nigeria.
“I was planning to come back to this state as your president. When I assessed the APC, I noticed that we needed peace and unity in the party and since the Northern Governors in their show of patriotism, have decided that power should come to the south, I had to give my support to one of the founding fathers of the party and a man with vision and mission, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I have just returned from the North with our Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Tinubu. From what I saw, he enjoys tremendous support from our northern brothers. He is accepted all over the country and from the political indices on ground, he will emerge the next president”, he said.
Inaugurating the council at the campaign office, in Ikot Ekpene Local Government, the Vice Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, stated that the party “is the one to beat in the forthcoming election in 2023 across the country.” According to the former Senate Minority Leader, “the people of Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District want to use this election to prove to the world that their son, Senator Godswill Akpabio, won the senatorial election in 2019 but the results were manipulated against him and one of those who took part in that heinous crime, is today cooling off in prison.”
“Let me also caution our supporters. Whoever brings money to you, collect it but vote your conscience because your vote will surely count this time around. Don’t swear to any fetish oath. Vote APC all the way. A vote for me to go to the Senate is a vote for appointments, human capital development, Scholarship and empowerment and taking Akwa Ibom to the centre of national politics. I will campaign in all the units, wards and local governments of the state.”