By Chioma Onuegbu
Uyo-SENATE Minority leader representing Ikot Ekpene senatorial district, Senator Godswill Akpabio has urged his constituents not to be worried about 2019 elections, expressing the confidence that any party platform on which he will contest for second term ticket for Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District give Akwa Ibom victory.

Akpabio and Udom

Akpabio who spoke yesterday at the grand endorsement rally in his honour and Governor Udom Emmanuel by Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District Akpabio said he had to play down on the issue of party because he believed that any party platform he would contest election would guarantee him victory.

Akpabio declared; “Don’t be worried about election. Election is all about voting. Today you notice that I did not shout too much about party because you have given, Godswill Akpabio as an unopposed candidate. And this unopposed candidate involves all the political parties.

“Whether you call it CUPP – Coalition of United Political Parties or whether it is PDP, no matter the political party, we are saying let God’s will be done again. For diverse tendency; for those who want to divide us, let God Almighty not allow them”

While justifying his desire to return to the senate to consolidate what he called “uncommon representation”, Akpabio reeled out some of the 68 projects he has attracted to his senatorial district in the past three years to include boreholes, market stalls in all the 10 local government areas of the district, 274 students on scholarship who receive at least N100,000 a year, a major road linking the greater part of the senatorial district.

Addressing the mammoth crowd at the Ikot Ekpene Township Stadium, Governor Emmanuel appreciated the people of Ikot Ekpene senatorial district for his second term endorsement, and promised that he would not take their support for granted.

“Let me thank you for this show of love and appreciation. The crowd alone speaks volume. Let also thank you today for endorsing me for a second term. This a show love; this is a show of welcome to an law from ikot Ekpene senatorial district.

“Let also thank the national working committee. Once the party has spoken, it stands. Today the party has spoken for myself and then for the senate minority leader representing Ikot Ekpene senatorial district that the two of us should go unopposed,” the governor said.

He lamented that it is only in Akwa Ibom that a state government would construct 26-kilometre of dual carriage way and people would still ask what the government has done with the state’s fund.

Earlier in his welcome remarks chairman of the occasion, Dr. Christopher Ekpenyong said they senatorial district decided to endorse the duo for a second term so that they would show the state who to support during the presidential primaries of the PDP.

Ekpenyong, a former deputy governor of the state, particularly applauded the industrial powers of the state governor but asked that such industries like rice mill, oil palm mill and other agro-industries should also be established in Ikot Ekpene senatorial district.