In this interview with Channels TV, Godswill Akpabio, a senator from Akwa Ibom, and a former minority leader of the Senate, speaks on his failure to win re-election, and other political issues.
Channels: The right quarters to ventilate your grievance is the tribunal? Are you planning to go to the tribunal?: The reason why the court is not totally an immediate option is the fact that in law, the result is yet to be announced. Because the nine local government areas that were announced were actually announced at the senatorial district headquarters.
The reality is that in the centre where these announcements were being made, once in a while that centre is also the centre-in-charge of Ikot Ekpene local government area. But it also operates as the senatorial headquarters. So, at the senatorial declaration of the results, I wasn’t present, and there was no problem, at all. It was very peaceful and people were clapping hands.
Channels: Oh, there are beliefs that you may be the next Senate president should you win, that is why this is happening?No, no, no, it’s not that should I win; I won. The problem is that how can we delay his announcement or delay his victory so that he would not be there on the ninth. But that is neither here nor there. The reality is that I am asking for justice. I am saying that INEC should be bold enough to do the right thing.
That is what I am saying, there was compromise here and there, and so whatever happened the major thing is that the president has won. But if you look at it, this is a far cry from what happened in the past. I was in charge of the South-south. The president in 2015 did not have five per cent of the votes in the South-south, but in 2019 it was different. No matter what happened, look at it, you’ll see we have made appreciable difference. Of course, we are well over 30 per cent.
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