Suspended PDP Caucus leader: “Abia Speaker, Labour Party can’t intimidate me”

Solomon Akpulonu, the leader of the PDP Caucus in the Abia State House of Assembly, has characterised the state legislators’ alleged suspension of him as a failed attempt to intimidate the opposition in the chamber.

Akpulonu expressed amazement that a legislator would be suspended for using a peaceful method of agitating in the Abia State Parliament for the right thing to be done when he heard the news of his suspension.

He asserted that, as the state’s opposition party leader, he was not expected to remain silent while things were done improperly.

The Obingwa East lawmaker insisted that PDP members should hold the majority of seats in the Abia House and said that the agitation was being carried out peacefully.

He made it abundantly apparent that the Speaker or the alleged suspension would not be able to frighten him.

I am a leader in the opposition. Since I am the PDP Caucus leader, no one can frighten me. I am not intimidated even by the Speaker. I am not bothered.

“I’m arguing that what the Speaker and the Labour Party are doing is wrong. The majority will never change to the minority.

Let the Speaker suspend me for the term because “I will not be intimidated, even if he likes”

Hon. Akpulonu questioned why the Speaker singled him out for persecution in light of the accusations that he spoke to the press and disclosed House business without permission from the House, when other lawmakers from the LP, PDP, and other political parties had been doing the same thing without receiving any stick from the Speaker.