{"id":236172,"date":"2025-10-01T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/more-opposition-governors-ready-to-join-apc-akpabio-tells-tinubu\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:40:18","slug":"more-opposition-governors-ready-to-join-apc-akpabio-tells-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/more-opposition-governors-ready-to-join-apc-akpabio-tells-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"More Opposition Governors Ready To Join APC \u2013 Akpabio Tells Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has hinted that more governors from opposition parties are considering defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to align with President Bola Tinubu.<\/h2>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Akpabio made this assertion in Owerri during the launch of a book, \u201cTen Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria,\u201d authored by Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma,<\/strong> alongside the commissioning of projects by President Tinubu.<\/p>\n

In his goodwill message at the event, Akpabio told the President to expect a wave of defections from opposition states.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMr President, with what you have done in the last two years, get ready to receive more governors from the opposition parties. As I speak, there are several governors in Nigeria today that are ready to be received by you,<\/em>\u201d the Senate President said.<\/p>\n

Akpabio noted that ordinary Nigerians were beginning to feel the impact of Tinubu\u2019s reforms, adding that the beneficiaries themselves were now testifying to the outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students, farmers and businessmen are all speaking on the various reforms you have brought into governance, which are now yielding results in the overall interest and benefit of the people. If we say it, they will accuse us of rubber-stamping your achievements, but the beneficiaries are the ones talking about what you have done,\u201d<\/em> Akpabio stated.<\/p>\n

Akpabio also commended Governor Uzodimma for documenting the achievements of the APC in the last decade through his book.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thank Governor Uzodimma for deciding to put history in writing in his Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria. If you don\u2019t tell your story, others will tell it for you. Progressiveness is not in words, it is in action. The quality of works done by the governor is of high quality and the people of Imo State must be very, very excited,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on his own political journey, Akpabio maintained that his record as governor of Akwa Ibom nearly two decades ago showed he was already a progressive by action.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the Governor of Akwa Ibom State 18 years ago, I was already a progressive, based on the projects I executed,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has hinted that more governors from opposition parties are considering defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to align with President Bola Tinubu. Abia Radio News reports that Akpabio made this assertion in Owerri during the launch of a book, \u201cTen Years of Impactful Leadership of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[287,187,624,619],"class_list":["post-236172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-bola-tinubu","tag-godswill-akpabio","tag-hope-uzodinma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Godswill-Akpabio1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}