The Senate denied on Saturday that any senators were plotting to remove the Senate’s president, Godswill Akpabio, calling the assertions diabolical and untrue.
“Our attention has just been drawn to syndicated satanic verses in a section of the media, of purported and illusory plots of leadership change in the Senate,” the upper chamber declared in a statement by Yemi Adaramodu, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity.
The declaration claims that the Nigerian Senate is a single, close-knit family.
The statement read, “This imaginative composition is in the realm of the false and erroneous story of 100 million per legislator.”
It is appropriate to highlight that the 10th Senate, led by Senator Godswill Akpabio, faithfully performed its legislative and constitutional obligations.
Adaramodu contended that the Senate had enacted “life-enhancing” measures and resolutions in less than 60 legislative days, and that, in addition to monitoring duties, service chiefs and ministers, among others, had been screened and confirmed.
The statement continued, “We advise the fifth columnists, who operate undoubtedly outside the Senate and are determined to sow discord through media stunts that they cut the wings of Nigeria’s democracy, to exercise caution.
“In order for the Nigerian project to advance, the Senate should be given space to settle in before beginning its national tasks. The media should exercise caution so as not to serve as a tool for these purveyors of false and damaging information.
