Former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has
called on Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to resign his position honorably or
be forced out of office. Akpabio called for Saraki's resignation after the spat
they had on Wednesday in the house over Akpabio's seating position.
The senate was thrown into a rowdy session yesterday after
Saraki asked Akpabio to move to the seat allocated to him in the senate before
he could make any contribution. This did not go down well with Akpabio who
stated that Saraki embarassed him by his comment. According to reports, Akpabio
was still seating on the seat he was allocated when he was minority leader. APC
and PDP senators for over 30 minutes engaged in war of words.
Speaking with journalists after the row had ended and the
plenary was adjourned, Akpabio said APC is the majority party in the upper
legislative chamber and there is a need to form a new leadership and asked
Saraki to resign just like he did in August when he defected from PDP to APC.
“It’s a tradition all over the world that when you defect to
another party even as a senate president like Saraki did, to resign from the
office of the senate president. APC is still the majority party and they need
to form a new leadership. The senate president should honourably resign just
like I did. I moved to APC in national
interest. I don’t believe in bringing government into being and will not
support that government to succeed. In the last 16 years, I did not see one
kilometre of road done by PDP government in Akwa Ibom state, but today, APC
government is constructing the road from Akwa Ibom to Calabar. The road has
been a death trap and I must thank this government for that. From the national
and local perspectives, people look at me as a leader and I must tell you that
in 2019, it would be difficult for any other party to penetrate the
south-south.” he said
