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A former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari will win the presidential election within three hours of voting.<\/p>\n

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The former Governor of Akwa Ibom State also claimed that the state would be first Buhari will win on February 16.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker, who spoke in an interview with journalists in Uyo, was responding to a question on the possibility of violence in Akwa Ibom during the election following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.<\/p>\n

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According to him, the people of the state have already decided who they will vote, insisting that there is no battle ground in the state.<\/p>\n

Akpabio said, \u201cAPC had taken over Akwa Ibom even before I joined the party. By the time I decided to join APC, by the time I landed at the airport, the whole airport was APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole of the airport to the town was APC. The whole of the plaza in Uyo was APC, the jubilation was infectious.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWomen and men were bringing their brooms from under their bed, which means they had been hiding them because of me and they were sweeping the roads.<\/p>\n

\u201cA distance of 20 minutes took us over two hours to cover because of the jubilation. I was now saying that so all these people belong to APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I asked them, they said, \u201cSir, after you left office, the situation wasn\u2019t the same again. We have moved to APC\u201d. And I asked them when, and they said since 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ask the APC headquarters, they will tell you that we have over 300,000 card-carrying members who joined the party within six weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I hear that Akwa Ibom is going to be a battle-ground, I laugh because there is no battle-ground in a state that has already shown direction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confidently confirm to you that the first state President Buhari will win within three hours of voting in Akwa Ibom.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not because of me but because of the change that the Federal Government has started. The reason I am being attacked is just because I am a leader here and a lot of people came out boldly to associate with APC when I joined, but the people have rejected PDP before I declared for APC.\u201d<\/p>\n

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