When you don?t have any delegate, you withdraw – APC factional chairman mocks Akpabio over presidential primary election

Factional chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State, Austin Ekanem, has mocked former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, after he withdrew from the party’s presidential primary.

Akpabio had announced on Tuesday June 7, that he was stepping down. He urged delegates in Akwa Ibom to vote for the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu.

Reacting to this on Wednesday June 8, Ekanem said the former governor of Akwa Ibom State should have withdrawn from the exercise, instead of stepping down. 

He said; 

“When you don’t have any delegate, you withdraw; you only step down with delegates to support another aspirant.” 

Though delegates from Akwa Ibom state were accredited for the primary, they did not vote due to a court order served on the party accreditation officers on Tuesday evening, June 7.