Senator Godswill Akpabio has dissociated himself from posters purportedly portraying him as campaigning for the 2019 presidency.
Akpabio, through a statement signed by his media aide, Anietie Ekong on Thursday, May 5, 2016, called on Nigerians to disregard the publications, saying they were the handiwork of mischief makers, who are bent on smearing his personality.
The senate minority leader said he has no intentions of contesting for president and is not behind such misleading publication.
“It is instructive that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which he (Akpabio) belongs to, has zoned the presidency to the North by 2019,” the statement read.
“The South-South has had its shot at the presidency through Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who handed over to President Muhammadu Buhari barely one year ago. And it is politically impracticable in the present Nigeria to expect another South- South man to aspire to succeed President Buhari.
“He should not be distracted by a phantom campaign as such ambition only exists in the imagination of the mischief-makers,” the statement concluded.
