Those Supporting My Senate President Dream Are Not Bribe Chasers – Godswill Akpabio

Ex-governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio has come out to say that he expects the number of lawmakers supporting his ambition to be the President of the 10th Senate to rise to 86 by June.

He recently had his say while speaking at an APC meeting, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, about 69 lawmakers are currently supporting his bid to be Senate President, but he expects the number to keep rising ahead of next month.

Akpabio added that his supporters are not bribe chasers as well because they are men of integrity.

His words, “Today, we are about 69 in number and it is still growing. We believe that by the time we get to June, we should expect this group to rise to about 85 to 86. All I know is that we are going to win.”

“I want to assure, sir that the people you see seated here are those shunning dollars and shunning pounds and shunning naira. The Senate is composed of men and women of integrity. We will not allow Nigeria to be bought. If leadership in the country goes to the highest bidder, I don’t think those like the late President Yar’Adua would have ruled Nigeria. Even the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, was not even available, I think he was somewhere else, I think Yola, when he became President.”

“So, it’s not a function of money. We’ve seen money politics play out, even though we’ve not seen it play out in the 10th Senate yet. As a prelude to the inauguration, we’ve seen what is going on. We condemn it and we believe that integrity should come to play.”