EVANG. PAT AKPABIO Set To Launch Cable TV Network

She has been an evangelist, musical artiste, a motivational speaker, dancer, music organiser and director and also a chorister with Glory House World Outreach, Tucker - Georgia. In fact, she is multi talented. Evang. Pat Akpabio, is also a former Miss Culture Club 2001 -2002 and Miss Akwa Ibom, Atlanta 2002 -2006. GIST PLUS can reveal that Evang. Akpabio, who is the only Nigerian that has been inducted into the Grammy Recording Academy is about putting finishing touches to her forth coming album to be titled “I got Feelings” and to the launch of her Cable TV Network. Speaking recently in the luxurious swimming pool in her Uyo, Akwa Ibom state mansion, she told GIST PLUS on her decision to go into Gospel Music: “The creative energy and talent I have for making music is a gift from God; the voice, the ability to write music; the ability to connect. It's all a way of being closer to God. My music tells my story, reminiscent of the personal experiences in my life. I have found over my lifetime, that it's never as bad as it seems, so long as you believe in God”. This Georgia State University, Atlanta graduate and majored in Finance and has a special interest in Investment and Corporate Banking, but as an evangelist, she enjoys spreading of the gospel, giving inspirational talk and nurturing the weak. Her album “Right on Time” is an inspiration from God to reach out and touch lives. Evang. Akpabio emphasized that her inspiration is her husband, Prince Ibanga Akpabio, the younger brother to Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state, who she feels is more talented and social than she is, but he is a busy politician and current Secretary of Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom state. She also hinted that contrary to the general thinking and rumours surrounding her musical career, she spoke on the issues of resting on her oars since her brother in-law is the Governor, saying, “that is the mentality problem of our people, especially pertaining to her life style as a gospel act, we serve a beautiful God Pat stated, so nothing should stop us (his children) from dressing flamboyantly, she added”.