A source has revealed the main reason why the former
Governor of Akwa Ibom state, Godswill Akpabio is threatening to dump PDP.
A source in the Peoples Democratic
Party has confirmed that the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Godswill
Akpabio, is considering leaving the party.
Some media organisations (not PUNCH)
had reported on Friday that Akpabio met with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in
Aso Rock for two hours and that the senator was planning to leave the PDP for
the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The source, however, claimed that
Akpabio was considering leaving the PDP because the APC—led government was
threatening to use the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against him if
he did not work to deliver his state, Akwa Ibom, for the ruling party in 2019.
The close party source said, “What
is happening is that the APC has threatened to deal with him, using the EFCC
and he doesn’t want that at all.
“Although, we are all pleading with
him not to leave the party (PDP), but he is afraid. He doesn’t want to be in
EFCC’s net at all. He is really under pressure but we hope that he would listen
to us.”
Senator Nelson Effiong from Akwa
Ibom South had in 2017 joined the APC from the PDP.
-Culled from Punch
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