2015: I’ve no interest in Presidency – Akpabio
The Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors’ Forum, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has said that he has no interest in contesting the presidential election in 2015. Rather, he would only vie for the senatorial seat of his state as requested and endorsed by his people.
Akpabio on the purported presidential ambition, when in the early hours of Sunday, his posters as running mate to Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State, just like it happened in Abuja last week, had flooded some parts of Lagos, such as Awolowo Road, Airport Road and Medical Road, Ikeja, said he had no plans to join in the presidential race.
Special Assistant to Akpabio on Media, Lagos, Mr. Jackson Udom, said the posters had also been sighted around Sagamu, with plans said to be in the offing to spread them to other parts of the South-West and the entire country.
He noted that the vigilante groups in the affected areas stated that those behind the posters had come around 2 a.m. on Sunday, with an Osun State-marked Toyota Sienna space bus, claiming to have been sent by one honourable to paste the posters.
He said: “We wish to completely dissociate Chief Akpabio from the printing and circulation of these posters, which are clearly the handiwork of political jobbers, who are bent on causing undue tension in the polity with their political mischief.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Chief Akpabio is not interested in the Presidency in 2015 and has not mandated anybody to campaign for him. His focus is on the completion of his transformation agenda in Akwa Ibom State. In fact, he had made it clear that based on the pressure by the good people of Akwa Ibom North West (Ikot Ekpene) Senatorial District, he wishes to represent them at the Senate in 2015.
“We urge the general public to ignore this politically-engineered mischief and continue to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the arduous task of transforming this country.”
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