Last week, the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, publicly denied ever being a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), regardless of beforehand holding elective political positions of two-term governor and Senate Minority Leader on the social gathering’s platform.
Akpabio spoke throughout final Tuesday’s plenary whereas responding to a movement in search of to honour the late former governor of Kogi State, Ibrahim Idris.
The movement was sponsored by the senator representing Kogi East, Jibrin Isah, who recalled that Idris was a member of the PDP and advised Akpabio that they’d all belonged to the social gathering on the time. Isah described Idris, who ruled Kogi State from May 29, 2003, to January 27, 2012, because the longest-serving governor within the state’s historical past.
Akpabio, nonetheless, interrupted the senator and rejected the reference to his membership of the PDP.
“I was never in the PDP. My spirit might be there, but my heart was never there. I have always been a progressive,” the senate president stated.
While he was saying this, he maybe forgot that he as soon as served as a commissioner below PDP-led administration in Akwa Ibom State, in addition to the governor of the state from 2007 to 2015 and chaired the PDP Governors’ Forum throughout his tenure.
He was additionally elected to the senate in 2015 on the platform of the PDP and served as Senate Minority Leader between 2015 and 2018.
Akpabio, nonetheless, defected from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2018 and since then, he has exorcised every thing PDP, a celebration that gave him every thing in politics.
What he failed to understand is that he can nonetheless defect to a different political social gathering that wins the presidency sooner or later and deny the APC.
Nigerian politics encourages opportunism and lacks honour and precept.
To reveal honour and integrity, politicians ought to all the time have a good time and establish with the individuals and platforms that made them who they’re, regardless of the circumstances.
