I’m Still In Race For Senate President – Akpabio

Akwa Ibom North-West Senator-Elect, Godswill Akpabio, refuted reports that he has quit the race for the Senate Presidency in the forthcoming 10th Senate.

Some media outlest reported on Monday that the former Akwa Ibom State governor might drop his Senate Presidency ambition for a ministerial appointment in the cabinet of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Akpabio was one of the seven presidential aspirants who stepped down for Tinubu at the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primaries.

Picking holes in the withdrawal from the Senate Presidency race report, Akpabio said that it was the handiwork of blackmailers.

In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Jackson Udom, the Senator-elect said: “Please, tell them that the story is complete falsehood and blackmail cooked and served from the pit of hell. These tissues of lies lack substance and only exist in the minds of its purveyors and backers.”