Godswill Akpabio: From commissioner, governor, minister to Senate President Godswill Akpabio has been elected as the Senate President of the 10th Assembly. Akpabio was sworn in as the Senate President after garnering 63 votes, to defeat his closest rival, Yari Abdulaziz, who got 46 votes. Akpabio was the preferred candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress and has been governance for a while. He obtained his law degree from the University of Calabar, Cross River State, and had a short stint as a teacher before he moved on to work as an associate...