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Even though I was in PDP in 2015, my heart was with Buhari— Akpabio
Senator Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom State, has revealed that his heart was with President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 even though he was a member of the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Akpabio spoke when he led elders from the state on a visit to President Buhari on Monday.
The senator who is now in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), also claimed that Akwa Ibom State did not witness even a kilometer of road from the federal government under the PDP in 16 years.
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The former governor said there no amount of defection will affect the chances of the APC in the 2019 elections.
He boasted that Akwa Ibom will be the first state from the South-South that the APC will win in 2019.
Akpabio said what is left of the PDP in Akwa Ibom is a mere carcass as the body and soul of the party had joined the APC, adding that over 266,000 new members had registered with the APC since he joined.
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