The President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio has mandated the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Akwa Ibom State, Stephen Ntukekpo to set up a reconciliation committee to address the differences rocking the party in the state.

Akpabio who disclosed this on Friday while addressing a Stakeholders’ meeting in Uyo, vowed to reunite the party so that it would be positioned to take over the state in the 2027 elections.

He also called for unity, stressing the need for party members to remain firm on the party they belong,

He added that a situation where someone will be in one party and be working for another party will not be tolerated.

He said, “We will make sure that APC in Akwa Ibom is one, we will give people the option that either you belong to us or to them. There should not be any in-between. We are going to resolve all the issues in APC, we are going to advise some people you can’t be here and there.

“I’ve mandated the Chairman of the party to set up a reconciliation committee in the state, we have to bring our members together. If we are united, there is no barrier that we can not break.”

“I pray against confusion among my leaders not in Uyo alone but in all the senatorial districts, we must reconcile among ourselves,

Speaking on the 2027 elections, the Senate president expressed hope that APC, which is an opposition in the state, would emerge victorious noting that it would be an aberration for the number three citizen not to produce a governor from the same party at the end of an election.

“You know wherever the senate president is, that is where the party is.

“Is it possible that Nigeria will give Akwa Ibom the number three citizen and at the end of the election, it will not produce an APC governor?” He queried.

Akpabio also blamed the Uyo and Eket senatorial districts for not inviting him to their campaign during the last election, boasting that there is nowhere he would enter that people would not vote for APC.

“So I didn’t know whether you were serious but in 2027 I want to assure you that we will be more serious, i tried to call them, and give me your campaign itinerary, but they refused to give it to me. Is there anywhere I will enter that people will not vote for APC? You should have invited Godswill Akpabio but you felt let us abandon him to the other side ( Ikot Ekpene senatorial district).

“Look at what the other side did; they gave President Tinubu 120,000 votes but Uyo and Eket combined ended up with only 40,000 votes” he added.

Akpabio mandates APC chairman Akwa Ibom to set up reconciliation committee