A source in
the Peoples Democratic Party has confirmed that the Minority Leader of the
Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, is considering leaving the party.
Some media
organisations had reported on Friday that Akpabio met with Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo in Aso Rock for two hours and that the senator was planning to leave
the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The source,
however, claimed that Akpabio was considering leaving the PDP because the
APC—led government was threatening to use the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission against him if he did not work to deliver his state, Akwa Ibom, for
the ruling party in 2019.
The close
party source said, “What is happening is that the APC has threatened to deal
with him, using the EFCC and he doesn’t want that at all.
“Although,
we are all pleading with him not to leave the party (PDP), but he is afraid. He
doesn’t want to be in EFCC’s net at all. He is really under pressure but we
hope that he would listen to us.”
Senator
Nelson Effiong from Akwa Ibom South had in 2017 joined the APC from the PDP.
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