By SouthernVoicenews/Agency Report
As the race for leadership of the 10th Senate hots up, former governor of Akwa Ibom state and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed as false reports that he had quit the race for the Senate Presidency in the forthcoming 10th Senate, saying he is still in the contest.
There were reports on Monday that the former Akwa Ibom State two-term governor and former minority leader of the Senate might drop his Senate Presidency ambition for a ministerial appointment in the cabinet of the President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Akpabio, who was recently elected to return to the Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district seat, after he steeped down for Bola Tinubu during the APC presidential primary, is among the seven aspirants eyeing the office of senate president.
Dismissing reports of his withdrawal from the Senate Presidency race, Akpabio in a statement issued Sunday by his media aide, Jackson Udom, described it as the handiwork of blackmailers.
The Senator-elect said: “Please, tell them that the story is complete falsehood and blackmail cooked and served from the pit of hell. These tissues of lies lack substance and only exist in the minds of its purveyors and backers.”