By Ayo Yusuf
Following reports that some senators led by two former governors of states in the North West have concluded plans to impeach him as soon as the Senate resumes sitting, Senate President Godswill Akpabio has dismissed the reports as pure fabrication.
Senator Akpabio alleged that they are syndicated media attacks from outside the precincts of the National Assembly and boasted that the 10th Senate cannot be distracted by such “innuendoes from merchants of political tar brush.”
In a statement on Saturday signed by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Hon Eseme Eyiboh, Senator Akpabio said reports of plans to destabilize the Senate by removing it’s leadership were figment of imaginations laced with malice in order to achieve something senators were yet to comprehend.
Hon. Eyiboh claimed that since the “Senate has since gone past the experience of the keenly contested leadership election, the plot to drag in Senators who initially did not support the emergence of the present leadership into a conspiracy that does not exist was uncharitable to the senators and a needless umbrage.
“Senators are presently concluding their holidays in their constituencies and other places they have chosen to spend their time after the rigours of the inauguration and ministerial screening and other constructive engagements,” he said.
“All senators are also refreshing themselves ahead of the resumption, therefore, any suggestions that they are presently engaged in other subversive plots against the institution is rather uncharitable. It is mostly uncharitable for those senators who initially did not support the emergence of the leadership but who have all unanimously endorsed the Senator Akpabio-led leadership. Continuing to link these senators with needless conspiracy with barely disguised innuendo is rather unkind,” he added.
“We call on the media not to give in to the conspiratorial tales, and not to give damage to the reputations that they have built over time,” he said.
There have been media reports that politicians outside the senate and senators who had opposed Senator Akpabio’s emergence as Senate President have reportedly vowed to commence impeachment proceedings against him when the Senate resumes by the end of September.
The arrowheads of this drive are said to be former governors of two states in the north west who accuse the Senate President of turning the Senate into a rubber stamp for the executive.
They alleged that Senator Akpabio has been too busy trying to reciprocate President Tinubu’s support of his candidacy during the Senate leadership elections to bother about protecting the independence of the legislature.
