Akpabio apologizes for making Udom Emmanuel governor

President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio

Former Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has expressed regrets for what he said was his “imposing” Gov.  Udom Emmanuel on Akwa-Ibom State.

Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa-Ibom State

Apologising before a crowd at Ikot Ekpene Plaza, Akpabio, who returned from his mother-in-law’s burial at Enugu on Sunday evening, said Emmanuel was his biggest greatest mistake, pleading to be forgiven.

Akpabio had, in the run up to the 2015 elections, declared Emmanuel, then Secretary to the State Government, next in line to succeed him, even when 26 aspirants jostled for the post.

The Punch reports the former Senate Minority Leader, as describing Emmanuel  as  “a mistake that must be corrected in 2019.”

“Udom (Emmanuel) is a mistake that must be corrected in 2019. All hands must be on deck to ensure that the mistake is corrected for a people-oriented leadership under the ruling All Progressives Congress at the centre.”

“Emmanuel’s administration has failed the people,” forcing him to take decisive actions to correct the anomaly for posterity to be fair on him”, he said.

The immediate past Senate Minority Leader traced the hunger and deprivation in Akwa Ibom State to the Emmanuel administration, insisting that it was time for “holistic action” to take the state back to economic prosperity.

 

 

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