Akpabio promises Jonathan 1.6million votes

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill
Akpabio, has assured President Goodluck
Jonathan that he will get at least 1.6 million
votes in the February 14 election.

Akpabio said this during the Peoples
Democratic Party presidential rally in Akwa
Ibom, on Friday.

"Mr. President, 1.6 million Akwa Ibom votes
await you on February 14. We don't want a
government that will only build prisons. We
want a government that will build schools," he
said.

Jonathan, while addressing the large crowd of
supporters, said PDP governors had performed
better than their All Progressives Congress
counterparts.

The President said the over N30bn stadium
built by the Akwa Ibom State government was
a proof that the PDP was ahead of others.

He said, "We give our governors that freedom
and freewill to do what is right for the people
because they were voted for by their people.

We don't dictate who gets contracts from our
governors; we don't dictate who gets
appointments from our governors.

"Our governors govern their state with the
help of indigenes of the state and make sure
that the resources of the state are used
judiciously to help the state.

We don't ask
them to bring resources to us in Abuja. They
spend the state funds in the state to develop
the state. That is why PDP states are doing
very well.

"All PDP states have state-owned universities.

There are some states that don't have state-
owned universities and they will tell you they
are changing. Changing to what? I don't know
where the change is going."

Jonathan also told party supporters that
those canvassing for change should tell
Nigerians what they did when they had the
opportunity of ruling the country.

The President, however, promised that he
would convert the Maritime Academy of
Nigeria into a maritime university as well as
ensure that the Ibaka Deep Seaport came into
reality, if elected into power for a second
term.

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