The senate president served as governor of Akwa Ibom from 2007 to 2015 and was also elected senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west in 2015 on the platform of the PDP.
Akpabio spoke during the plenary on Wednesday as a bill seeking to repeal the Electoral Act 2022 and enact a new Electoral Bill 2025 passed second reading in the senate.
He recalled that irregularities and manipulation characterised elections under the PDP-led administration.
“You will agree with me that since PDP left, the elections have improved tremendously in this country,” Akpabio said.
“I’ve been close to most of the presidents since 1999. And I recall in 2007, when I won as a governor, our then president, may he still rest in peace, President Yar’Adua, had to come out publicly to say that the election that brought him as president was totally flawed. He said it was full of inconsistencies and rigging.”
The senate president said subsequent administrations have since “blocked the holes” that made electoral fraud possible in the past.
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