Akwa Ibom state Governor Godswill Akpabio has maintained that when he
said he struck out the name of a Senatorial candidate for Senator Etuk
during the 2011 general election, he didn’t mean he rigged the election. Akpabio said he was misunderstood during his speech at a reception for the Good Governance tour in Uyo.
In an exclusive interview with Channels TV breakfast progamme; Sunrise Daily, he said:
“What happened was, we had a political meeting before the primaries
where the list of people was given to me-possible candidates for the
Senate in my senatorial district. And I struck off the name of the
person that was recommended to me and I said no that, I will prefer
another person because the senatorial seat should be zoned to the
minority local government.”
Akpabio said that the name switch was “before the primaries, long before the general election.”
“It was a political conglomeration where we converge and discuss the
affair of who should contest the Senate within the rank and file of an
in-house arrangement before the primaries” he said.
“And somebody needs to know, this was not a general election, not
even a primary. It was not even an election we were talking about.”
According to reports,
he was also asked if the meeting was an internal arrangement but the
Governor said it wasn’t. “It was before the voting where we were trying
to decide who we will vote for at the primaries.”
“I am not INEC, even INEC cannot strike out somebody’s name and put
another person’s name after an election result has been announced.”
Akpabio went on to say that “Nigerians do not like to hear the truth,” as he claimed he made
“Tell the admirers of the uncommon transformation (his
administration’s motto), tell the admirers of Governor Akpabio that the
governor is a democrat. I will never engage in that type of thing.”
HBC: Your Excellency Sir, That was not what you said OoOoO!
The governor said, “The people of Ikono and Ini (Local Government Areas) from 1960 have never produced a Senator.“I used my hand to strike out the name of the person who has won before, and I said it is important for me to give that region a Senator in 2007, and I produced Senator Aloysius Etuk for you; that’s where he comes from.”
“take a bow”.
I just replayed the audio of what you said Oga!
So me I don't understand this your new gist OoOo!
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