Senate Passes Vote Of Confidence On Akpabio, Others

The Senate on Thursday passed a vote of confidence on its President, Godswill Akpabio, and other principal officers of the Red Chamber.

This followed a Point of Order raised by the Senator from Yahaya Abdullahi, during plenary in Abuja.

He was reacting to the purported impeachment move against Akpabio.

Abdullahi, who raised the matter under personal explanation, drew the attention of the upper legislative chamber to a report on the purported impeachment of the Senate president.

He said: “It was reported that senators from the northern part of the country were plotting to impeach the leadership of the senate led by Akpabio.

“I am a senior member of the Northern Senators’ Forum and I can assure you that there is no attempt by any caucus among the northern senators to bring discord or any attempt to challenge the unity of what you are doing in the senate.

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“My privilege has been breached. Anybody trying to bring division across any regional line is undermining the progress of our democracy and undermining the capacity of this institution to deliver.

“Therefore, we must rise and get united under the leadership to ensure that this kind of discourse is completely negated so that the kind of unity that we have forged in the last 18 months can be sustained and fully accomplished.

 “I have never in my life associated with anybody to bring or to divide any institution along ethnic or religious lines.”

On his part, the Senate from Bauchi, Abdul Ningi, called for the enforcement of a vote of confidence on the Senate president and the entire leadership of the National Assembly.

“I’m very positive that this is the way to go about it,” he stated.

In his remark, Akpabio assured the senators that the bond existing between them would continue.

“No person, no social media will come here to break that bond. I thank you for this and we are very humbled.

“We are confident in this place and in the coming months and the coming years, we will justify the confidence that you have placed in us,” he said.

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