A group of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), youths, PDP YouthsCongress, PDPYC, has described the treatment meted out to the Ministerof Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, by the APC in AkwaIbom State, as the beginning of his reward for political harlotry andbetrayer of the PDP, a party that gave him everything politically.
On Saturday, angry protesters drawn from the faction loyal to SenatorAkpabio had protested at the All Progressives Congress, APC,secretariat in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, seeking thecancellation of the ward congress exercise. They accused the NationalCaretaker Secretary, Senator John Udoedehe, of “fraudulentlymanipulating the lists to include only his loyalists as candidates forthe wards and chapter congresses.”
Reacting, the PDPYC said it was shameful that Senator Akpabio, who,while in PDP, was a highly respected politician but today, is cryingover APC ward congress like a rat being pursued by a hungry cat.Shameful!
In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday by the PDPYC Director ofCommunications and Mobilization, Comrade Akpan Ibor, the youths saidmore humiliation still awaits Akpabio in APC, unless he retraced hissteps back to PDP and apologise to the party members and supporters.
What happened to Senator Godswill Akpabio is the beginning of thehumiliation he will suffer in the APC. More will still come because by2023, he won’t be able to field himself and any of his loyalists ascandidates in APC.
Imagine a Akpabio, having to organise protest and set born fire at APCsecretariat in Uyo over ward congress. Isn’t it shameful?
That is what you get when you engage yourself in political harlotry,moving from your own political mansion to become a tenant in otherpeople’s political boys quarter.
If he had not decamped to APC out of political greed, Akpabio wouldstill have remained in the Senate as the Minority Leader, a positionthat is more honourable than that of Minister of Niger Delta Affairsthat he is holding now.
As for us in the PDPYC, we don’t pity Akpabio and his likes. We onlyhope that others will learn from the political misfortune that isbefalling him in APC.