Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday met with the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, reportedly to perfect the lawmaker’s defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The former governor of Akwa Ibom State arrived the State House Villa by 3.06pm with the Presidential Aide on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang.

The duo went straight into the Vice President’s wing at the State House Villa. The two Akwa Ibom politicians came an hour after President Muhammadu Buhari departed for Bauchi State on an official engagement.

The meeting, which lasted till around 5.20pm, came on the heels of Akpabio’s defection plot. Akpabio is said to be mulling defection over his rift with the current governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel.

Our correspondent reports that while Akpabio was with the vice president, the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of his party, the PDP, was also going on, with Senate President Bukola Saraki and other defectors from the APC in attendance.
A ranking senator told Daily Trust that Akpabio had since perfected his plans to dump the PDP.

“If not for the impunity of Saraki, he (Akpabio) would have announced his defection penultimate Tuesday when we proceeded on recess. He was to announce it that day but Saraki stopped him,” the senator, who did not want be named, said.

Our correspondent reports that if Akpabio decamps, he would be the second senator from the oil rich Akwa Ibom to join the APC. In January last year, Senator Nelson Effiong (PDP, Akwa-Ibom South) joined the APC.

A text message sent to Enang to confirm whether the vice president’s meeting with Akpabio was in connection with the defection was not responded to.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/defection-osinbajo-meets-akpabio-at-villa-263941.html

I pity him it will be very difficult for anybody to win under the platform of apc in any ss or se state

Akpabio's sinful acts during his tenure didn't allow him to rest again, he is now jumping around up and down, No peace for he wicked !!

This will be a serious blow to the PDP, One of their major financiers!!!

2019 is sure going to be very interesting...

Olatunji1929:
I pity him it will be very difficult for anybody to win under the platform of apc in any ss or se state

I have been in uyo for the past one year

Trust me apc is strong in akwa ibom... If akpabio defects then pdp getting the governorship would be very very hard

Governor Udom Emmanuel in just his first tenure is about to make Akpabio as irrelevant politically in Akwa Ibom state,as then Governor Orji made his own predecessor and benefactor,Orji Uzor Kalu.
Very soon Akpabio,like Orji Uzor would turn another arse sniffing chief advocate of Buhari,in exchange for the slow and gradual disinterest in his humongous rap e of the Akwa Ibom treasury by the EFCC.

I am waiting for 2019 with all seriousness


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If only APC can manage their losses correctly, they will reap bountifully before 2019

wallex1983:
If only APC can manage their losses correctly, they will reap bountifully before 2019

Exactly and avoid snitches like saraki.

I wouldn't be surprised, not anymore.

And the game is on.


APC supporters right now.

osho baba!! Thump up!! Let them scatter

Cheii! Association of pain people will not like this

I want to know how afonjas will react to this according to them akpabio and anything PDP is corrupt so APC as you can see there is nothing like buhari's integrity abeg for once in your in life time stop being tribalistic because of osibanjo

Keep deluding yourselves. Akpabio will not defect. The meeting is just about the executive trying to broker a deal with PDP to get them prevail upon saraki to reconvene the Senate so they can pass the bill to fund the elections 2018. And other urgent matters that the Senate needs to get done.

mrvitalis:

I have been in uyo for the past one year

Trust me apc is strong in akwa ibom... If akpabio defects then pdp getting the governorship would be very very hard

oga u just lied apc is only on ground in oron land n moreover akpabio cannot go to apc coz of d enemies he has( umanah,nsima,udoedeghe,inibehe,eyibio,enang etc n akpabio iz a prideful man so he will not want to be a boi to his former enemies

APC about to snatch a very top striker from their eternal rivals.

O De to g

Where is the picture between him and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo if nor, you guys should stop all these lies because is not good to Nigeria politics

otuekong1:
oga u just lied apc is only on ground in oron land n moreover akpabio cannot go to apc coz of d enemies he has( umanah,nsima,udoedeghe,inibehe,eyibio,enang etc n akpabio iz a prideful man so he will not want to be a boi to his former enemies

Lol I laugh at you... With no southern person contesting against buhari apc is sure of at least 30% in akwa ibom

Where pictures na
APC and wishful thinking is like lie lie Mohammed and lies

Fruitless meeting

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Anything that makes the country moves forward is WHAT we stand for.

APC is dead and in the process of decomposing

Everybody that is somebody is defecting from APC

U people should keep dreaming.

Defection is the trending word in Nigeria at the moment

APC should be wary of the defectors.

Akpabio is a known Saraki asslicker... he would be working for him as a mole.

kenonze:
Saw it long ago.
Akapbio our next Majority leader while sen. Ahmed Lawan our Senate President

Ahmed Lawan just doesn't seem a leader to me. He's senior to Saraki in the Senate, but still doesn't look remotely influential compared to Bukola.

That's my own superficial impression

Atouke:
Keep deluding yourselves. Akpabio will not defect. The meeting is just about the executive trying to broker a deal with PDP to get them prevail upon saraki to reconvene the Senate so they can pass the bill to fund the elections 2018. And other urgent matters that the Senate needs to get done.

lol

And he chose the moment of the PDP NEC meeting to broker peace with Osinbajo Receive sense my brother.

Almaiga:
And the game is on.


APC supporters right now.

Abeg where is this meme from?
What country?