2019: I DON’T CARE WHICH PARTY RETURNS ME TO SENATE – AKPABIO
2019: I
DON’T CARE WHICH PARTY RETURNS ME TO SENATE – AKPABIO
Senate Minority Leader,
Godswill Akpabio, has said the party platform on which he will contest for his
second term ticket for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in 2019 will not matter
much.
Speaking
at an endorsement rally in his honour and Governor Udom Emmanuel by Ikot Ekpene
senatorial district yesterday, Akpabio said he had to play down on the issue of
party because he believed any party under which he will contest the election
would guarantee him victory.
Addressing
a huge crowd at the Ikot Ekpene Township Stadium, Akpabio said: “Don’t worry
about election; election is all about voting. Today, you notice that I did not
shout too much about party because you have endorsed Akpabio as an unopposed
candidate. And this unopposed candidate cuts across all the political parties.
“Whether
you call it CUPP – Coalition of United Political Parties or whether it is the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), no matter the political party, we are saying
Let God’s will be done, again. For diverse tendency; for those who want to
divide us, let God Almighty not allow them.”
While
justifying his desire to return to the Senate to consolidate what he called
“uncommon representation,” Akpabio reeled out some of the 68 projects he has
attracted to his senatorial district in the past three years to include
boreholes, market stalls in all the 10 local government areas of the district,
274 students on scholarship who receive, at least, N100,000 a year, a major
road linking the greater part of the senatorial district.
On his
part, Governor Emmanuel, while thanking the people for his second term
endorsement, said the exercise was a show of appreciation, and promised he will
not take it for granted.
