Ahead of the June 13 inauguration of the 10th Senate, a group, the South-South Women Compatriot on Monday kicked against t
he aspiration of former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio to head the upper legislative chamber, saying he is a threat to women across the country.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Imma Ubong, National Women Leader of the group said Nigerian women will not feel safe should the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs emerge President of the Senate. “We, the Nigerian women find it disheartening that the name of the president-elect will be peddled as having endorsed Akpabio. We don’t want to believe that his silence means consent. The President as a matter of urgency must come out to dissociate himself from this Akpabio.
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