The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), United States of
America (USA) has called on the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill
Akpabio to resign over his alleged lackluster handling of the affairs of the
upper chamber.
The Coalition claimed that Akpabio, who was planted as the
Senate President by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has completely subjugated his
colleagues under the executive and eroded the independence and integrity of the
legislature in Nigeria.
The Executive Director of NADECO USA, Mr. Lloyd Ukwu, in a
statement issued on Tuesday, accused Akpabio 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.
To this end, Ukwu called on Senators to urgently commence
impeachment proceedings against Akpabio “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.”
He said: “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 insisted that should Akpabio fail to resign or Senators
fail to impeach him, NADECO USA would have no option than to mobilize its
members in the USA and Nigerians in diaspora for a mass action to ensure that
he vacates office.
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