The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has resigned in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive.
AN24 gathered that Akpabio, a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, tendered his resignation on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting.
It would be recalled that President Buhari during Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting ordered all cabinet members eyeing elective offices to quit before Monday, May 16.
Akpabio according to a reliable source submitted his resignation letter to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
The minister’s resignation was also confirmed by his Personal Assistant, Jackson Udom, who spoke to a national newspaper, The Nation.
Udom told The Nation Newspaper that “the Minister has resigned. He has submitted his resignation letter to the SGF. We are waiting for him at the ICC, where he is coming to submit his nomination form.”
Akpabio, who is a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is the second minister to resign from the Federal Executive Council ahead of the APC presidential primaries.
Early today, President Buhari announced the resignation of the Minister of State for Education, Chukuemeka Nwajiuba during the Federal Executive Council meeting.
