Former minority senate leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would win the general polls at the federal and Akwa Ibom state, as the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) died in the state the day he dumped it.
Senator Akpabio who made the assertion on the campaign trail in Abak, maintained that the outcome of the general polls would deal a deadly blow to governor Udom Emmanuel and his allies, who he said would find the shortest route to escape because of the defeat.
The former governor accused the PDP of recruiting thugs with a view to rigging the polls, but noted that APC would not be intimidated as it was already coasting home to victory in the general elections.
He said: ‘’I have never seen a child being greater than his father. I put all of them there and they cannot be greater than me. Or has any of you benefitted from inter-ministerial jobs? Please don’t think about PDP again because its dead. Since the day I left PDP, the party died. Who was PDP? I was PDP. So, since the day I left, the party died instantaneously. On the 8th of August 2018, that was the day PDP died. Read more