The Peoples Democratic Party said it was not aware that the Senate Minority Leader, Chief Godswill Akpabio, was going to London where he met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday .
Rather , it said the former governor of Akwa Ibom State told members of the party’ s National Working Committee that he was on his way to Germany.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party , Mr Kola Ologbondiyan , who stated this in Abuja on Monday , said the party was not aware of Akpabio’ s planned defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress .
He said the minority leader of the Senate could have had what he called “technical stopover ” in London.
Ologbondiyan said, “ He told us he was going to Germany and if he ended up in London, maybe , he had a technical stopover .

“The PDP has no issues with Akpabio whatsoever and the party will not respond to speculations of his readiness to defect. We have no notice of the said defection and all I can say now is that we will cross the bridge when we get there . ”
Investigations by one of our correspondents showed that the rumour of Akpabio ’s planned defection had been rife within the national leadership of the PDP , including the governors .


It was gathered that one of the governors, name withheld, from the southern part of the country had openly accused Akpabio of hobnobbing with the ruling party at the residence of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu , recently

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lol.., he's a free man to do whatever he wants

One thing I find out is that PDP have so many things to complain about this days.

For Akpabio to seek asylum now done turn to offense.

Leave Akpabio alone. He's just one man, one vote. He's not someone like Kwankwaso in Kano who has a huge fan base and followership (Kwankasiyya). Akpabio comes from a place with deep hatred for Buhari and been ruled by the PDP for almost 20years now and counting, so APC has not achieved anything. Non of the heavyweight or middleweight or even lightweight politicians in Akwa ibom has declared to follow him because they know it would be the end of their political careers.