I Cannot Join The Party Of Killers – Akpabio Responds To Defection Rumour

The Former governor of Akwa-Ibom, Senator Akpabio has responded to the rumour on social media that he set to defects from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Akpabio, a current senator and Senate Minority leader of the house says “I cannot join the party of killers”

“Their aim is Akwa Ibom oil….
“I cannot join the party of killers…”
“My people will NEVER suffer.”
“Their guns will perish with them.”

Akpabio met Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday at State House Villa, Abuja.

The former governor who arrived the State House Villa by 3.06pm with the Presidential Aide on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.

The duo went straight into the Vice President’s wing at the State House Villa. The two Akwa Ibom politicians came an hour after President Muhammadu Buhari departed for Bauchi State on an official engagement.

The meeting, which lasted till around 5.20pm, came on the heels of Akpabio’s defection plot.

Our correspondent reports that while Akpabio was with the vice president, the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of his party, the PDP, was also going on, with Senate President Bukola Saraki and other defectors from the APC in attendance.

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