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Akpabio Addresses 2027 Presidential Ambitions With El-Rufai Amid Posters
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has denied plans to run for the 2027 presidential election with Nasir El-Rufai.
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Akpabio dismissed circulating posters suggesting his candidacy as the work of mischief-makers.
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He emphasized his focus on supporting President Tinubu’s administration and called for an investigation into the origin of the misleading posters.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Senate President Godswill Akpabio has debunked reports suggesting he will contest the 2027 presidential election alongside former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
This online media platform learned that Akpabio’s posters have surfaced in parts of Abuja, indicating a potential presidential run with El-Rufai in 2027.
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However, Akpabio, through a statement on Wednesday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh, dismissed the posters as the work of mischief-makers. Akpabio clarified that he has no intention of running for the presidency and is currently focused on collaborating with President Tinubu to provide the necessary legislative support for the administration’s efforts to reset Nigeria.
The Senate President also called on security agencies to investigate the matter thoroughly to identify and apprehend those behind what he termed an “ugly enterprise.”
The statement reads, “The attention of the office of the President of the Senate has been drawn to posters circulating in some parts of Kaduna associating the President of the Senate with a supposed El-Rufai 2027 political ambition.
“This is the handiwork of mischief makers and familiar fifth columnists and those bent on opening up windows for tar brushing of the President’s loyalists. The action is spurious and mischievous.
“Senator Akpabio is presently preoccupied with the responsibility of collaborating and providing the required legislative support to President Bola Tinubu to reset Nigeria and make the nation regain its pride of place in the comity of nations.
Akpabio Addresses 2027 Presidential Ambitions
“This is exactly what Senate President Akpabio, as the Chairman of the National Assembly has been doing since June 13, 2023; and has NEVER at any time contemplated running for President in 2027 or at any other time.
“It is therefore, embarrassing for anyone to link the person of Senate President Godswill Akpabio to an insipid presidential ambition, when a competent, trusted and tested leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR is in the driving seat, effectively navigating the contours of purposeful leadership and adept governance with his renewed Hope Agenda.
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“We implore members of the public to disregard this unbridled mischief intended to distract Nigerians from the purposeful and positive interventions the Senate under the leadership of Senator Godswill Akpabio is demonstrating.”
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