Akpabio asks APC chairman A’Ibom to set up reconciliatory committee

Akpan Umoh, Uyo

The Nigerian Senate President, Sen. Godswill Akpabio has urged the Chairman, All Progressives Congress, (APC), in Akwa Ibom State Mr Stephen Ntukekpo, to set up a reconciliation committee that would address the differences rocking the party in the state.

Akpabio said this on Friday while addressing a Stakeholders’ meeting in Uyo vowed to reunite the party so that it would be positioned to take over the state in the 2027 elections. 

He called for unity and stressed the need for party members to remain firm on the party they belong adding that a situation where someone will be in one party and be working with another party will not be acceptable.

“We will make sure that APC in Akwa Ibom is one, we will give people the option that either you belong to us or them.

“There should not be in-between. We are going to resolve all the issues in APC, we are going to advise some people you can’t be here and there.

“I’ve mandated the chairman of the party to set up a reconciliation committee in the state, we have to bring our members together. If we are united, there is no barrier that we cannot break.

“I pray against confusion among my leaders not in Uyo alone but in all the senatorial districts, we must reconcile among ourselves,” Akpabio said.

Akpabio expressed hope that APC which is an opposition party in the state, would emerge victorious in the 2027 general elections.

According to him, it would be an aberration for the number three citizen not to have a governor from the same party at the end of an election. 

“You know wherever the senate president is, that is where the party is. 

“Is it possible that Nigeria will give Akwa Ibom the number three citizen and at the end of the election, it will not produce an APC governor,” he said.

The senate president also blamed Akwa North East and South senatorial districts for not inviting him to their campaign during the last election, stressing that there is nowhere he would enter that people would not vote for APC. 

“So, I didn’t know whether you were serious, but in 2027, I want to assure you that we will be more serious.

“I tried to call them to give me your campaign itinerary, but they refuse to give it to me. Is there anywhere I will enter that people will not vote for APC?

“Look at what the other side did; they gave President Tinubu 120,000 votes but Uyo and Eket combined ended up with only 40,000 votes,” he said.

Earlier, the APC state chairman, Ntukekpo, thanked President Bola Tinubu for inclusivity in his governance and pledged members’ continuous support and loyalty to the party.