Akpabio not gunning for 2019 presidency - Aide

Chief Godswill AKpabio, the Senate minority leader has rubbished reports in the media linking him to a 2019 presidential ambition. This reaction follows from series of posters of him campaigning for the 2019 presidency, purportedly
pasted in strategic places. But the media aide to the ex-governor of Akwa Ibom state, Anietie Ekong, denied the reports, stating that Nigerians should disregard any of such publications. READ ALSO: Kidnapping: Akpabio, Ekweremadu, others speak up While stressing that the posters were placed by mischief makers who wanted to create wrong impression in some quarters, the governor’s spokesperson reiterated that Akpabio has no ambition of contesting for the presidency in 2019. According to The Sun, he said: “It is instructive that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he (Akpabio) belongs to, has zoned the presidency to the North by 2019. “The South-South has had its shot at the presidency through Dr Goodluck Jonathan, who handed over to President Muhammadu Buhari barely one year ago. And it is politically impracticable in the present Nigeria to expect another South- South man to aspire to succeed President Buhari.” “He should not be distracted by a phantom campaign as such ambition only exist in the imagination of the mischief-makers.” Meanwhile, Akpabio was recently mobbed in Akwa Ibom when he went to do his Bank Verification Number (BVN) registration at the bank. The happy indigenes of the state reportedly mobbed him because they were happy to see him after leaving the government seat for Abuja, where he is now a senator of the federal republic.