An organization that represents the Annang people, the second-largest ethnic group in Akwa Ibom State, called Afe Annang has joined the campaign to elect Senator Godswill Akpabio as the 10th Senate’s president.
The organization argued that the office should be assigned to the Southsouth because the region hasn’t produced the Senate President since democracy was restored in 1999.
The organization said Akpabio was fit to serve as Senate president in a statement issued in Uyo yesterday and signed by its President, Blaise Udofia, and National Publicity Secretary, Sunny Udom.
It urged President-elect Bola Tinubu and the other 108 senators to support Akpabio for the number one Senate seat, saying he (Akpabio) was the first aspirant to step down for Tinubu during the presidential primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) last year in Abuja.
Congratulating Akpabio on emerging victorious in the February 25, 2023 National Assembly elections, Afe Annang said the victory was a call for higher service.
The statement said: “That the victory in the understanding of Annang people and the entire Akwa Ibom State was a sent-forth mandate given to Senator Akpabio to engage his colleagues for support for the Senate presidency.
“Senator Akpabio is qualified in terms of zoning, national and international connection and networking, experience in good governance and past political performance records.
“As far as zoning is concerned, the Southsouth stands out as the zone to beat, as no Senate president has ever been produced by the zone since after the late Senator Joseph Wayas left the office in 1983 – 40 years ago.
“If it is considered that our sister zone, the Southeast, has produced five Senate presidents (one from each of its five states), in an unbroken back-to-back stream of 16 years in this Fourth Republic alone, all with the support of the Southsouth; then the Southeast should take this as a payback period to support the Southsouth for their turn.
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