NADECO Coalition Ask Akpabio To Resign Or…

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The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) in the United States has called for Senator Godswill Akpabio’s resignation over an alleged lack of the Senate President not handling affairs of the upper chamber well enough.

The group alleged that President Bola Tinubu planted Akpabio as Senate President of the 10th National Assembly and that Akpabio has brought his colleagues under the dictates of the executive.

In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Executive Director of NADECO USA, Mr Lloyd Ukwu, Akpabio was accused of showing absolute disdain for the Standing Rules of the Senate as regards the order of proceedings, vibrant debates during plenary and thorough scrutiny of executive communications and bills.

Ukwu on behalf of the collation called on Nigerian Senators to impeach the Senate President Akpabio.

The statement said: For making the upper chamber a laughing stock through naivety, immaturity and eagerness to please the executive, irrespective of the repercussions of his actions on the Senate as an institution and democratic governance in Nigeria.

“Akpabio is fond of keeping communications from the President which are supposed to be read during announcement time till the end of plenary, like he recently did when he announced the last three ministerial nominees by the President towards the tail end of plenary.

“Only recently, the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) and Senator Mohammed Ogoshi Onawo (SDP,  Nasarawa South) openly accused Akpabio of not giving senators adequate opportunity to interrogate and scrutinize bills, especially money bills, and warned that history would judge him for approving executive requests and passing important legislations posthaste.”

Ukwu went further to state that the failure of Akpabio to willfully resign or be impeached by the Senators, NADECO in the USA will be forced to mobilize their members and Nigerians in the diaspora to remove him from office.

[SA]