A battle line has been drawn in Akwa Ibom North west senatorial district between aggrieved constituents and Senator Godswill Akpabio ahead of the February 25 senatorial election.

A coalition comprising disappointed family members, former friends, aides and political associates within the senatorial district has been formed across partyline to stop Akpabio through the ballot.

A leaked video, currently trending online, shows Sir Ibanga Akpabio, former Commissioner for Labour and Manpower Development, giving reasons why the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs should not represent the senatorial district again.

Ibanga, who brought Godswill into politics in 2001, accused the former minister of selfishness, saying he expended over N600billion in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs without anything improvement in lives or ongoing projects in the state.

“He believes that he is the only cock to crow.
“He went to Ministry [of Niger Delta Affairs] and spent over six hundred billion, one naira did not get to my house, that three years over six hundred billion. But what I can always tell you people, if God did not bring him out to give this high jump, the money he would have taken home would have been too much, have you heard what I said?”

He wondered why Godswill should come out to contest for Senate at this point in time.
“Is it for the unity of Annang people or for the unity of Akwa Ibom Northwest that includes the people of Ikono and Ini that are seated here? That’s the problem.

He said Godswill has deceived former DIG Ekpoudom that he’ll be Minister of Police Affairs. “You have not given yourself something yet, I saw it on the paper the other day, they wrote “I’m not going to the Senate to become a Senator again he doesn’t want to go and answer the name Senator, what do you want to go and answer? If not for the fact that you want to go and help own home, your wife and children”.
While vowing to put his brother out of political relevance, Ibanga declared “since I was born I have been hearing of everlasting God, I have never heard of everlasting man.

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” In this life you can only hear of a current champion, there’s nothing like permanent champion, I have been hearing of Mohammed Ali when he left another person came up – Mike Tyson, there has never been a permanent champion.
“It’s always current champion that means it’s just for the currency of that time”.
(Independence)

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