‘Stop eyeing positions that are not available’– Akpabio fires at governors

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has warned governors against pursuing governmental positions that are not available, urging them to absorption connected serving their radical and completing their constitutionally permitted eight-year tenure.

Akpabio stated this connected Wednesday portion speaking astatine the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council successful Abuja.

Citing Anambra State Governor Chukwuma Soludo, Akpabio said, “If the cloth is not torn, wherefore effort to mend it?”

He argued that attempting to mend an untorn cloth could extremity up tearing it, urging President Bola Tinubu to instrumentality Soludo’s proposal seriously.

“From the National Assembly, you already cognize we are with you. Please instrumentality the proposal of Governor Soludo seriously. He said, ‘If the cloth is not torn, wherefore effort to mend it?’

“And for my brothers who are governors, I privation you to cognize that you indispensable not wantonness your people. I did 8 years arsenic a governor, and the Constitution says you should bash 8 years. There is nary request for you to commencement eyeing different presumption that is not available.”

Akpabio, who served arsenic ...