***Senate President Says Students, Farmers, Businesses Applaud Reforms
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has assured President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that more governors from opposition parties are preparing to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), citing growing confidence in the administration’s reform agenda.
Akpabio, who spoke on Tuesday at a book launch in Owerri, said Nigerians from all walks of life including students, farmers, and business owners are expressing satisfaction with the government’s policies, which he argued are beginning to yield tangible results.
“Mr 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,” Akpabio declared.
The event was the public presentation of Ten Years of Impactful Leadership of the APC Administration in Nigeria, authored by Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State.
According to a statement released Wednesday by the Senate President’s Special Assistant on Media, Jackson Udom, Akpabio further stressed that Nigerians themselves not politicians are the ones affirming the impact of Tinubu’s reforms.
“The 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,” he said.
Akpabio commended Uzodimma for documenting the APC’s decade-long governance record, noting that history must be written by those who make it.
“Progressiveness is not in words, it is in action. The quality of works done by the Governor is of high standard, and the people of Imo State must be very, very excited,” Akpabio said.
The Senate President recalled that as Governor of Akwa Ibom State 18 years ago, his own legacy projects reflected the progressive ideals he has always championed. He congratulated Uzodimma and the APC national leadership for steering the party to what he described as “remarkable achievements” over the last decade.
The book launch coincided with President Tinubu’s commissioning of projects in Owerri, further underscoring the administration’s developmental agenda in the South-East.
