We will resolve issues in Akwa Ibom APC, Akpabio declares

The All Progressives Congress, Akwa Ibom State chapter, says plans are underway to set up a reconciliation committee to address differences in the party.

The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, who disclosed this while addressing Uyo stakeholders meeting held at Kara Event Centre, said he had directed the Chairman APC, in the State, Mr Stephen Ntutekpo, to set up the committee.

He also called for unity, stressing the need for party members to remain firm on the party they belong,adding that a situation where someone would be in one party and be working for another party would not be tolerated.

Akpabio said, “We will make sure that APC in Akwa Ibom is one, we will give people the option that either you belong to us or to them. There should not be any in-between. We are going to resolve all the issues in APC, we are going to advise some people you can’t be here and there.

“I’ve mandated the chairman of the party to set up a reconciliation committee in the state, we have to bring our members together. If we are united, there is no barrier that we cannot break.”

“I pray against confusion among my leaders not in Uyo alone but in all the senatorial districts, we must reconcile among ourselves.”

Speaking on the 2027 elections, the Senate president expressed hope that APC, which was opposition in the state, would emerge victorious, noting that it would be an aberration for the number three citizen not to produce a governor from the same party at the end of an election.

“You know wherever the Senate President is, that is where the party is.

“Is it possible that Nigeria will give Akwa Ibom the number three citizen and at the end of the election, it will not produce an APC governor?”