The All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) after the opposition party called for the resignation of Senate president, Godswill Akpabio.
The PDP had asked Akpabio to step aside over an allegation of budget padding made by Senator Abdul Ninig from Bauchi state.
Responding to the PDP’s demands, the APC in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, described the PDP’s stance as “nothing short of crass buffoonery”
Morka said: “Again, the PDP has shown itself as an entity bereft of focus and purpose and, like a political scavenger, always quick to feast on sham without thought and consideration for facts and institutional due process.
It is rather ridiculous that the PDP, which is unable to govern itself, would seek to dictate to the Senate how it should conduct its proceedings and handle internal matters of discipline of its members.
Exactly how is the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi without first referring the matter to a Senate standing committee proof of a cover-up?
How is a committee of the full Senate conducting an inquiry in the matter, in full public view on national television, less independent and transparent or in violation of the Senate’s standing rules or any other laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?”
The APC stated that Senator Ningi, a PDP senator, could not offer any substantiation or justification for his allegation.
“It is eerily comical that the PDP, a party with a sordid legacy of monumental corruption would suggest that the President of the Senate should turn himself to anti-graft agencies for investigation.
”This is the entity that turned graft and corruption to statecraft, the same entity that cannot account for funds raised for the building of its own national headquarters, making such a ridiculous call. The PDP should lead by example and heed its own call.
”The President of the Senate has done nothing wrong to warrant him stepping aside on account of this or any other disclosed matter.
”The PDP should quit being a meddlesome interloper, expend its lean energy on revamping its decrepit institution, and leave the Senate to carry on its important role of deepening our democracy and stabilizing our dear nation,” the ruling party said.
