Senate President Bukola Saraki
The Senate President Bukola Saraki has been warned by the ruling APC that he cannot declare Godswill Akpabio's seat vacant.
The ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) said on Sunday that the
call by the reformed APC on Senate President Bukola Saraki to declare
the seat of Senator Godswill Akpabio vacant as a comic relief, according
to a report by Nigerian Tribune.
Reacting in a statement by its Acting National Publicity Secretary,
Yekini Nabena, said that the r-APC lacks the capacity to make the call
in the first instance.
The statement insisted that the Senate President, having defected to the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) must resign his position.
The statement read: “We normally do not respond to the
so-called, ‘Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC)’ because it is
neither a duly-registered political party or a faction as it labours to
sell to the public.
“The content of their statement particularly the request to the
Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki to declare the seat of Senator
Godswill Akpabio vacant is a borrowed and scripted tactic –
sensationalism and comical conspiracies – typically used by unknown
groups to get media attention to their normally unserious activities.
The statement should not be given any attention and credence.
“The real issue remains our clear position that the Senate
President honourably steps down or be impeached. Dr. Saraki’s ‘vote of
no confidence’ which the so-called rAPC alleges has since been passed
going by our Party’s rejection of his leadership of the Senate.
“We reiterate that the Senate President being a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in an All Progressives
Congress (APC) numerically-dominated Senate cannot maintain a minority rule in the Upper House.”
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