Arewa Youth’s Conglomerate calls for Akpabio’s resignation

The Arewa Youth’s Conglomerates has asks Akpabio to resign from his position as President of the Senate over what it called ‘lacklustre handling’ of the senate.

In a statement on Thursday, President of the group, Hon. Muttaka Ahmed Ibrahim, said Akpabio begins plenary late and does not follow its orders.

According to the Hon. Ibrahim, the Senate President Godswill Obot Akpabio is been hill advised by his Chief of Staff Barrister Okonkwo and his principal assistance.

Honorable Muttaka Ahmed Ibrahim accused the senate president of not giving the senators enough time to study important bills to enable an informed debate on them.

“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,” he said.

“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.

“Akpabio has equally shown lack of empathy for poor and suffering Nigerian masses when he recently turned a ‘let Nigerians breathe’ comment by a senator into a pun which attracted a mocking laughter from his colleagues during plenary.

“For fear of being impeached, he recently caused an amendment to be made to the senate standing rules to the effect that no first term senator is qualified to vie for the position of presiding officer, a move which clearly violates relevant sections of the constitution which confers powers on senators to freely choose presiding officers at their first sitting irrespective of ranking.

“Akpabio is been busy with his comedy show up in the hallowed chambers, he recently mocked the slain 17 military personnel that where ambushed and killed in Delta State that they were killed by machineries.

“Under the leadership of Akpabio the country has been in different crisis emanating from the careless utterances from the Senate.

“If Godswill Obot Akpabio refuses to resign the Arewa Youth’s Conglomerates will surely take him to court.

Eseme Eyiboh, spokesperson of Akpabio, has been contacted and is yet to react to the group’s claims.

As the leader of the 10th Senate we need a humble and straight forward representation for the country to move forward, the group said.