Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has assured members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State that the party under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman, Dr. Adamu Muazu, would reclaim its “stolen” governorship seat from the All Progressives Congress, just as he noted that what the people of the state needed was not change but real change, which only the PDP can bring.
Speaking at the Unity Rally of the party in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, which was organised to welcome some defectors from the APC on Monday, Akpabio, who is also the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, commiserated with the people of Kwara State over the calamity which befell them during the last Sallah celebrations in the home of an APC chieftain, praying for the repose of the souls of the dead.
Akpabio, who was accompanied by his governor colleagues to deliver a goodwill message to the new members, assured them that “with the turnout we have witnessed here today, it clear that come 2015, the people of the state will come out enmasse to install the PDP at all levels of governance just like you did in 2011.
“Kwara since the days of our late Baba has always been playing national and not regional politics, which the APC wants to impose on you.
“We are here today to join you to say no to oppression and intimidation.
“We are here to declare freedom over the state.”
Akpabio added: “Let it be known to you, the people of Kwara State, that all the projects and good things you have seen in this state is done by the PDP-led administration and not the APC.”
APC, Akpabio noted, “is a party that reaps from where it did not sow and by the special grace of the almighty God and the leadership of our party, we will recover all stolen seats.”
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