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Godswill Akpabio

Date of Birth: 19 December 1962
Place of Birth: Ukana Ikot Ntuem


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The oil clean-up that didn't?

Buhari may hope to neutralise his opponents by appointing a couple of political bruisers from the Niger Delta to key positions: Timipre Sylva is the new Deputy Oil Minister and Godswill Akpabio the new Minister of Niger Delta Affairs...

Niger Delta minister Godswill Akpabio said HYPREP's work should be extended to other parts of the region affected by decades of oil spills...


Executive exerts its privilege

At least three of the ministers from the region – Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi deputy Oil Minister Timipre Sylva and Niger Delta Minister Godswill Akpabio – are fiercely partisan figures pushing the ruling party's interests there...


Governors get set

Looking south Akwa Ibom governor Udom Emmanuel of the PDP has had a rough first term falling out in spectacular fashion with his political godfather former governor Godswill Akpabio...


Election bored game

Already Godswill Akpabio senator and former governor of Akwa Ibom in the south-east has crossed over to the APC (AC Vol 59 No 16 Barbarians at the gate)...


Now the race looks serious

APC minister and former Rivers governor Rotimi Amaechi and former Akwa Ibom PDP governor and now APC Senator Godswill Akpabio are working hard to flip their states to the APC for the governorship races...

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Barbarians at the gate

Senate minority leader Godswill Akpabio crossed the floor from the PDP to the APC after losing control of the party structure to his handpicked successor (AC Vol 54 No 19 Punching out the PDP)...


Punching out the PDP

After the meeting Godswill Akpabio Governor of Akwa Ibom and still behind the President floated the notion that the rebels had acceded to Jonathan's candidacy in 2015...


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