Senator Ishaku Abbo, who represents the Adamawa North Senatorial District, has claimed that Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, and his cronies were responsible for spreading rumors about his purported plans to be impeached.
The narrative, according to Abbo’s subsequent addition, was allegedly planned by the Senate President to stoke tension between President Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and northern lawmakers.
On Saturday, media sources claimed that efforts were being made to remove Akpabio from his position as the 10th Senate’s president when it reconvenes on September 26, 2023.
According to the article, several senators from across the national assembly and two notable senators from the North West have already met to discuss how to pull off the audacious deed.
According to the sources, the senators thought that the Senate President acted as a rubber stamp for the presidency and might not be able to do his job well.
He stated, “I woke up today to find over 10 mainstream Nigerian newspapers all carrying news of a plan to impeach Senator Akpabio by senators from Northern Nigeria. The Whistler Newspaper even went on to name Senator Abdulaziz Yari, Senator Aminu Tambuwal, and Senator Ogoshi Onawo, among others, as the senators behind the move.”
He added, “As a Northern senator and an official of the Northern Senators Forum, I boldly affirm that this news is intentionally disseminated and propagated by the ‘camp’ of Senator Akpabio solely to pit President Bola Tinubu against the North. I call on Senator Akpabio to rein in his camp, as the seeds of discord and deep ethno-religious division they are sowing will not bode well for the country. Why the North? Why in Saudi Arabia?”
Prior to leaving for its yearly break, the Senate approved 45 of the president’s 48 ministry candidates while rejecting the other three. Nasir El-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna State, was one of the three candidates eliminated.
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