Enyinnaya Abaribe, a Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) senator from Abia state, says he would have made
Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom sweat, at the ministerial
screening.
He spoke when Akpabio appeared
before the senate for screening on Wednesday.
The PDP lawmaker said he would
have asked Akpabio tough questions but for the tradition of the senate which
allows former lawmakers to “take a bow and go”.
Akpabio represented Akwa Ibom
north-west senatorial district between 2015 and 2019. He was minority leader of
the PDP caucus before he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) before
the last general election.
“I would have made Godswill
sweat… We know that as an uncommon person, you will work very uncommonly to
make sure the relation between the chamber and the villa is uncommon,” he said.
Earlier, Akpabio had said as an
“uncommon performer”, he would keep rendering “uncommon services” to Nigeria.
Akpabio said some of the roads he
built as governor of Akwa Ibom have not had potholes 11 years after they were
built.
He also taunted Dino Melaye,
senator representing Kogi west, who had told him that they would meet on “the
streets of Abuja” during the valedictory session of the senate led by Bukola
Saraki.
Melaye had made veiled reference
to Akpabio’s loss in the election.
“I will continue to offer
uncommon services to Nigeria through the current platform; with integrity,
dedication and love. I left office many years ago and on the roads I did, there
is not one pothole 11 years after. I rest my case on the CV before you,” he
said.
“It is my firm belief that the
only way we can touch the lives of the average man in he society is through his
hallowed chambers. Nothing really to say than what you already know; I am
regarded as uncommon performer in any place I go.”
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