Endure week, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, publicly denied ever being a participant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite previously holding elective political positions of two-term governor and Senate Minority Handbook on the party’s platform.
I have continually been a progressive,” the senate president said.
“I was not ever in the PDP. My spirit might be there, but my heart was never there.
The motion was sponsored by the senator representing Kogi East, Jibrin Isah, who recalled that Idris was a component of the PDP and told Akpabio that they had all belonged to the party at the time. Isah described Idris, who governed Kogi Situation from May 29, 2003, to January 27, 2012, as the longest-serving governor in the status’s past.
Akpabio, nevertheless, interrupted the senator and rejected the reference to his membership of the PDP.
What he failed to realise is that he can still defect to another political party that wins the presidency in the forthcoming and deny the APC.
He was furthermore elected to the senate in 2015 on the platform of the PDP and served as Senate Minority Handbook amid 2015 and 2018.
During the time that he was saying this, he possibly forgot that he once served as a commissioner under PDP-led administration in Akwa Ibom Condition, as well as the governor of the condition from 2007 to 2015 and chaired the PDP Governors’ Forum during his tenure.
Akpabio spoke during endure Tuesday’s plenary during the time that responding to a motion seeking to honour the overdue former governor of Kogi Declare, Ibrahim Idris.
Akpabio, nonetheless, defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2018 and as then, he has exorcised everything PDP, a party that gave him everything in politics.
Nigerian politics encourages opportunism and lacks honour and foundation.
To demonstrate honour and integrity, politicians should continually celebrate and identify alongside the humans and platforms that made them who they are, no concern the circumstances.
