Akpabio Shares Life Experience With Akwa Ibom Youths

A politician thinks of the next election while a statesman thinks of the next generation. Children decide on career choices when they are between the ages of 15 and 17. That is when they decide whether they want to be doctors, engineers, politicians, or whether they want to go to Mars or to the moon.

That is the time they start having dreams; and that is also the time you can work on them; especially to help them shape their dreams. That is the philosophy of Senator Godswill Akpabio,a versatile politician. He is of the opinion that change is the law of life and those who look only into the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

To prepare for the future , he always meets the youths of his constituency to borrow them part of his life experience in order to shape their future.

Yesterday, he met with over 10,000 youths from Essien Udim Local Government in his country home.

It was a life changing event that made some of the elders present ask themselves why they were not opportune to start their lives with a mentor like the uncommon Senator Godswill Akpabio.

Meanwhile, the wind of defection that started with Senator Akpabio in Uyo few months ago seems to have permanently relocated to Akwa Ibom State, and it is blowing from all directions of the state. Massive defection of members from the opposition party , the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) is now on per second basis with a slogan “oh what a great Senator we have in Godswill Akpabio!”

By Wole Arisekola

Group Reacts On APC’s Call For Security Agencies To Probe Atiku’s Dubai Meeting

N4Atiku, an independent group working towards the actualisation of PDP candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s presidential ambition has described as laughable and interesting the call by the ruling party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the EFCC and other Security Agencies to probe Atiku over the Dubai meeting he had with some other PDP members recently.

APC, through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, has claimed that the purpose of the meeting may not be what the media report says, suggesting sinister motives. He alleged that the meeting may have focused on how to move illicit cash meant for the rigging of the 2019 election, sponsorship of violence and other things.

The N4Atiku Group, in a statement released by its spokesperson Isiaka Abdulai, has however said that the recent outbursts of the ruling party on PDP and Atiku is nothing but an evidence that they are jittery over Atiku’s presidential ambition.

The group cites the freedom of speech and freedom of association as it is stipulated in the Nigeria constitution.

“How can a strategic meeting of a political party and its presidential candidate abroad becomes the headache of an opposition party? It clearly shows that the ruling party is afraid of defeat already’.

The group reminds the ruling party of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit under the guise of medical trip where he had hosted a series of top meetings with members of his party.