Senator Godswill Akpabio (APC-Akwa Ibom) says any move to declare
his seat vacant in the Senate will prove abortive. Akpabio made this known when
he spoke to newsmen in Abuja today Monday, August 13th.
The senator who defected from PDP to APC last week, said if
his seat must be declared vacant, the seats of those, who defected to the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should also be declared vacant. According to
him, if the excuse of those calling for his seat to be declared vacant is that
there is no rancor in PDP to warrant his defection, they should also know there
is no rancor in APC.
“Any defection from APC to PDP, we will like to declare
those seats vacant. As you are looking at me, do I look perturbed? I have not
heard the report. I think that is a rumor because at the moment, there is no
division in the APC. The APC is one family.
“If you hear about R-APC that was not really a political party,
that was not a division. It has since been consumed in what they call Coalition
of United Political Parties (CUPP)''Akpabio said
On the threat by APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole to
get the President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki impeached, Akpabio said he
was not aware of that.
“I just came in from Ikot-Ekpene, where I decided with my
people to join APC. I’m yet to be briefed on any of those items. I have not
heard anything. Why don’t you wait for me to formally talk to you? I believe
that when the National Assembly resumes, you will hear from me directly. So,
exercise patience’’, he said
Akpabio, while defecting from PDP to APC, also tendered his
resignation as Minority Leader.
