Akpabio Berated Over Comment On 2027 Election 

Okon Bassey in Uyo

The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has been advised to learn from history and avoid mistakes he would live to regret.

Former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Russia and Director General Umo Eno’s Campaign Organisation, Chief Assam Assam, SAN, gave the advice while reacting to a statement by Senator Akpabio over the 2027 election.

Senator Akpabio was reported to have organised several meetings with his party stakeholders across the state, boasting that he will ensure that Akwa Ibom State is taken by All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.

Responding in an interview, Chief Assam said that the current Senate President is merely exhibiting his trademark, which is to talk before he thinks.

He said he was not surprised that Akpabio spoke the way he did in his usual manner, but warned that the former Akwa Ibom governor seems to have forgotten where he ended up in 2019 after similar boasts.

Assam stressed that he is “not worried about it at all because anybody in this political clime can wake up and make a statement like that.”

“Of course, the President of Senate is my friend and I am satisfied that I know him and would have been shocked if he didn’t make that statement.

“In my writeups, I keep telling him ‘you talk too much and you talk before thinking.”

Frowning at Akpabio’s statement, Assam questioned why he said he is out to change the political narrative of an entire state – an act he sees as impossible.

Appraising Governor Umo Eno’s development strides in the past eight months, Assam said, “Governor Umo Eno from the beginning had said that he would rather under promise than under deliver.”

He said the governor set out on the mission to promote and run an all-inclusive government, which has so far been achieved through creating different fora where stakeholders made inputs into the ARISE Agenda blueprint of the governor.

He also commended the governor’s politics of inclusion which has projected himself as a governor of the state rather than governor of a particular party, by extending the olive branch to people from other political parties in the state.

Assam observed that Akwa Ibom PDP is too formidable to be threatened by any other party.