Senator Godswill Akpabio in defection moves
Following the defection of some senators of APC members, the minority leader (Senator Akpabio) from the opposition party PDP was seen at the State House Villa by 3.06pm with the Presidential Aide on National Assembly (Senate), Senator Ita Enang. The duo went straight into the Vice President’s wing at the State House Villa. The two Akwa Ibom politicians came an hour after President Muhammadu Buhari departed for Bauchi State on an official engagement. The meeting, which lasted till around 5.20pm, came on the heels of Akpabio’s defection plot. Akpabio is said to be mulling defection over his rift with the current governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel. Our correspondent reports that while Akpabio was with the vice president, the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of his party, the PDP, was also going on, with Senate President Bukola Saraki and other defectors from the APC in attendance