A non-governmental organization (NGO), Concerns Citizens for Democracy and Development Initiative, has thrown its weight behind the candidacy of former Akwa Ibom State governor, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, for senate president, saying it will stabilise the National Assembly.
The group, in a statement released in Abuja by its national coordinator, Hosanna Abel and national secretary, Ubong Nelson Ikie, maintained that an Akpabio’s senate presidency would serve as a channel to resolve all lingering issues and restore confidence in the legislative arm of government.
The statement noted: “With Akpabio at helms of the affairs of the National Assembly as the senate president be assure that his intellectual wherewith out will make us compete in the comity of nations.
“Openness, transparency, integrity, inclusiveness and purposeful leadership will be the order of the day when elected as the president of the senate.
“As a way of promoting our diversity, Senator Akpabio, as a true epitome of National Unity and integration, if elected as Senate President will religiously be committed to the true spirit of national unity and integration as well as promoting African solidarity and other core mandate with his other colleagues at the regional level, i.e the present upheavals in Sudan etc.
“With Senator Akpabio as Senate President the clamoring issues of the affirmative action on 35% women inclusion in politics and governance shall be given top priority, as well as laws that will protect the vulnerable will be taken care of.
“Senator Akpabio is a team player as well a resulted oriented leader and personality, whose records speaks for its self and will help galvanize stability and effective synergy between the Executive and the legislature for the common good of all Nigerians” the statement read in part.
“It is in the above submission that we are urging Nigerians both at home and in the Diaspora to engage their elected legislators to elect Senator Godswill Akpabio in becoming the Senator President and the chairman of the National Assembly of the 10th Senate of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria and we won’t regret” the statement concluded.
