Senate minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, on Sunday met vacationing President Muhammadu Buhari in London.
News of the meeting was gleefully shared on Twitter by the APC and persons associated with the Presidency.
PMB with Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Akpabio today in London, the UK. pic.twitter.com/auzgcPyIrY
— Bashir Ahmad (@BashirAhmaad) August 5, 2018
Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West District, and Senate Minority Leader, today in London met with PMB. Guess what the two leaders discussed… pic.twitter.com/ZFq4pYa8uW
— APC Nigeria (@APCNigeria) August 5, 2018
Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio, Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West District, and Senate Minority Leader, today in London met with PMB. pic.twitter.com/M2O6T7DFFC
— tolu ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) August 5, 2018
The former Akwa Ibom State governor is expected to dump the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday, August 9.
Akpabio had met Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja on Thursday and national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, in Lagos on Thursday.
His decision to leave the PDP comes days after Senate President Bukola Saraki and several other members of the National Assembly dumped the APC for the PDP.
Governors Samuel Ortom, Aminu Tambuwal and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Benue, Sokoto and Kwara states respectively also dumped the APC along with Deputy Governor of Kano State, Hafiz Abubakar.
Akpabio was governor of oil-rich Akwa Ibom state from 2007 to 2015. He was elected a senator in 2015 and was chosen as the minority leader for PDP senators.
He attended a reception in honour of returnees and new entrants into the PDP at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja as recently as Wednesday.
Buhari left Nigeria on Friday for a 10-day vacation in London.
