It emerged on Monday that two leading senate presidential aspirants, Orji Uzor Kalu and Osita Izunaso, met with the APC’s annointed candidates, Godswill Akpabio and endorsed his ambition.
Similarly, President of the 9th Senate, Ahmad Lawan, also met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Godswill, where the Yobe senator was said to have promised to deliver the former Akwa Ibom State Governor on Tuesday.
Director-General of Akpabio Campaign Council, Mohammed Ali Ndume, told journalists that 15 senators-elect from the South East, met with Akpabio, where they reportedly endorsed his candidacy.
With the purported endorsement, Abdulaziz Yari’s bid, may have hit the rocks and his plans of usurping the zoning arrangements, may have failed.
Speaking furthe, Ndume said former governors from the North, who hitherto refused to support Akpabio, have also made a U-turn. He listed Danjuma Goje, Aliyu Wamakko, Adamu Aliero, among others.
He said Sani Musa who had settled for the position of the Deputy President of the Senate, has also stepped down and has endorsed Jibrin Barau.
However, the camp of the former Zamfara State governor, Abdulaziz Yari, has dismissed as untrue, claims that Kalu, Izunaso and all 15 Senators elect in the South East have endorsed Akpabio’s ambition .
A Senator elect in the camp of Yari who did not want his name mentioned explained that “Senator Hope Uzodinma requested a meeting with Southeast senators and he came in company of Akpabio, Ganduje and others. He begged for support and left.
Another meeting was called after he left where 9 out of 15 unanimously voted to continue with Yari.
Yari will be declared tomorrow. As no force on earth can stop God’s plan.” He said
When contacted, a source among South East senators described Akpabio’s claims as propaganda.
He said, “we were holding a meeting of South East senators at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja when Akpabio came in .
He addressed us and requested that we take a group picture with him
Little did we know that he would use the picture as a weapon of propaganda as blackmail”.
