A Human Rights lawyer, Frank Tietie, has advised that the seat of the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, be declared vacant since he had defected to another party.
Browsing: Godswill Akpabio
Akpabio made this known in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Monday.
The group spoke at a press conference while the chieftains spoke at different occasions.
Misau, in a statement, urged Nigerians to disregard such empty talk by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress
He said this at Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom, during the official defection of former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio from Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has described as unfortunate the decision of the Senate minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio to join the All Progressives Congress.
National chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, stirred the huge crowd at Ikot Ekpene Stadium in Akwa Ibom State, with his fiery speech and dance steps.
But he warned the plotters to drop their sinister move because it is not “possible for a lizard to wrestle an antelope”.
The 55-year-old former governor of Akwa Ibom formally defected from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress at a mega rally held at the Ikot Ekpene township stadium.
No fewer than 30 APC’s senators and members of National Working Committee were on hand to receive the ex-senate minority leader, Akpabio.
Akpabio’s resignation is coming a day before his planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.
Staff who went in before the total blockage of the National Assembly by the DSS operatives, have equally been sent out
The Deputy Governor said this in a statement on Monday by his Chief Press Secretary, Ekikere Umoh, in reaction to a post by @APC Newspaper on Twitter on Sunday
The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday said the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, lied to it that he was travelling to Germany when he went to the United Kingdom to see President President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday.
Those that do not have the courage of their convictions and that do not have the guts to stand against tyranny when under fire are not worthy of being called men: they are little better than beasts.
Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress in Rivers, made the prediction in a statement on Monday in Port Harcourt.
The duo met in Abuja at the residence of Tinubu, a day after Akpabio also met with President Muhammadu Buhari in London
According to tweets on the Twitter handle of the two publications, the Deputy Governor will be dumping his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, for the All Progressives Congress
The meeting between Buhari and Akpabio is coming ahead of the planned defection of the two-term governor of Akwa Ibom State to the All Progressives Congress.
The confirmation was made by the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Public Prosecution, Okoi-Obono Obla, and the Presidential Liaison Officer to the National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.