Senate President Godswill Akpabio has dropped a political revelation, telling President Bola Tinubu to “get ready” as more opposition governors prepare to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 elections.
Speaking in Owerri on Tuesday during the launch of “Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria,” a book written by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, Akpabio declared that defections were already in motion.
“Mr President, with what you have done in the last two years, get ready to receive more governors from the opposition parties. As I speak, there are several governors in Nigeria today who are ready to be received by you,” he said in a statement issued by his media aide, Jackson Udom.
Akpabio went further to hail Tinubu’s reforms, insisting ordinary Nigerians were already feeling the results.
“The students, farmers and businessmen are all speaking on the various reforms you have brought into governance which are now yielding results, in the overall interest and benefit of the people. If we say it, they will accuse us of rubber-stamping your achievements, but the beneficiaries are the ones talking about what you have done,” he said.
Turning to Uzodimma, Akpabio praised him for documenting the APC’s decade-long story of power and governance.
“I believe strongly in development and progress. I thank Governor Uzodimma for deciding to put history in writing, in his 10 years of impactful leadership of the APC administration in Nigeria. If you don’t tell your story, others will tell it for you. Progressiveness is not in words; it is in action. The quality of works done by the Governor is of high quality and the people of Imo State must be very, very excited,” he stated.
Akpabio, reflecting on his own days as governor, reminded the audience that he had long embraced progressive politics.
“As Governor of Akwa Ibom State 18 years ago, I was already a progressive based on the projects I executed,” he said, while congratulating Uzodimma and the APC leadership on their 10-year run in power.
