Why I Chose Antai As NDDC Executive Director, Projects – Akpabio
…as Antai places A’Ibom 24 youths on N100,000 monthly engagement to prove loyalty to Akpabio
UYO – Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said he chose Victor Antai for President Bola Tinubu’s appointment as Executive Director, Projects (EDP) on the board of the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) on trust that he (Antai) is someone who doesn’t eat alone.
Akpabio disclosed this at Eket during the weekend’s tour of Akwa Ibom state senatorial districts in a bid to bridge divisions in the state’s All Progressives Congress (APC) and to assert supremacy over Akwa Ibom politics ahead of 2027.
The former Akwa Ibom governor also bragged before the NDDC Project Director that his failed bid to be Deputy Governor under APC in the 2023 governorship election in the state would have produced a different result if he (Antai) had not alienated him (Akpabio) from his campaigns at the time.
The Senate President told the EDP, NDDC, “The entire Eket Senatorial District should feel the impact of why you are there. You have enough resources in NDDC to carry the people along. I am not a fool. I brought you out because I know that you are a man that does not want to eat alone.”