More opposition governors set to join APC – Akpabio tells Tinubu

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has revealed that several opposition governors are finalizing plans to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and align with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

Akpabio made the disclosure on Tuesday during the launch of a book titled “Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria”, authored by Governor Hope Uzodimma in Owerri, the Imo State capital.

According to him, “Mr President, with what you have done in the last two years, get ready to receive more governors from the opposition parties. As I speak, there are several governors in Nigeria today that are ready to be received by you.”

He stated further that Nigerians were beginning to see the positive outcomes of President Tinubu’s administration and that they were saying it. “The students, farmers and businessmen are all speaking on the various reforms you have brought into governance which are now yielding results, in the overall interest and benefit of the people. If we say it, they will accuse us of rubber-stamping your achievements, but the beneficiaries are the ones talking about what you have done,” Akpabio stated.

“I believe strongly in development and progress. I thank Governor Uzodimma for deciding to put history in writing in his 10 years of impactful leadership of the APC administration in Nigeria. If you don’t tell your story, others will tell it for you. Progressiveness is not in words, it is in action. The quality of works done by the governor is of high quality and the people of Imo State must be very, very excited.”

Speaking further, he stressed that as the governor of Akwa Ibom State,18 years ago, he was already a progressive based on the projects he executed.