South-South rejects Akpabio’s removal as National Coordinator of APC Presidential Support Committee

The South-South wing of the APC Presidential Support Committee (PSC) has rejected the recent removal of Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, as National Coordinator of the group.

This was announced in a statement issued on Monday and signed by Director of Political Affairs, South/South Presidential Support Committee, Hon. Frank Ossai, in which he alleged ethnic with-hunt in Akpabio’s purported removal for poor leadership.

Ossai said in the statement: “The poorly framed and lopsided meeting and press release organized and led by Hon. Gideon Samani, the National facilitator of Presidential Support Committee (PSC), is indeed a ridicule of the whole outing of the entire committee.”

He described the meeting at which the decision to oust Akabio was taken as “a jamboree of a power drunk group in solidarity to the northerners in the committee.”

According to the statement, “The decisions reached by these selected few holds no water as their affirmation is never in the interest of the President who appointed Distd. Sen Godswill Akpabio as the presidential support committee National Coordinator rather of a privileged few who are constantly bankrolled by their ATM machines located in their various areas.

Presidential support Committee under the Leadership of Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs task supporters to remain resolute, calm, and disregard the jamboree meeting called by these few greedy fellow with the aim of milking our treasury, as the President who appointed him has not removed or suspended him.”

The statement urged “our Niger Delta Nation, well wishers and lovers of the Minister and Former Governor of Akwa Ibom to disregard the so called suspension as he remains one of the trusted frontline ministers of Mr President and he is highly committed to bringing a new political face to the Niger Delta.

“We hereby unanimously say that this resolution(s) must not be honoured.”