Amaechi, Akpabio bury hatchet, to improve APC’s fortunes in S/South

Tom Okpe, Abuja

Two frontline leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-South region, Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and the former Governor of Akwa-Ibom state and Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Godswill Akpabio have decided to close ranks to strengthen the party in the region.

The reconciliatory meeting between the two politicians which was at the instance of Sen. Akpabio was held on Sunday at the Asokoro residence of Alhaji Nasiru Dano, a director in the logistics department of President Buhari Campaign Council and a longtime ally of the president.

The meeting was to broker peace between the two leaders to iron out their perceived political differences.

Also, at the Sunday fence mending meeting was the Director, Strategic Communications of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and the official spokesperson for the Buhari campaign, Festus Keyamo (SAN).

“The leaders discussed and analyzed the performance of the party in the South-South region in the just-concluded elections and identified areas where things went wrong and how to improve those areas in the future.

“At the end, both leaders agreed to close ranks and work in unison for the overall interest of the party in the country. They promised to put behind them all previous perceived misgivings between them and to give a positive direction to the teeming supporters of the party across the country,” Keyamo said in a statement released on Monday in Abuja.

The meeting which marked a happy reunion in the APC family lasted several hours with the leaders frankly and honestly talking about their various disagreements from their days as governors in the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and in the Nigerian Governors’ Forum.