Akpabio dismiss rumours of impeachment plot

President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has dismissed media reports of an orchestrated plot by certain aggrieved Senators to impeach him.

Some national dailies have reported moves by some aggrieved lawmakers who lost out in the lobby for juicy Senate Committees as masterminds of the plot. The reports also alleged that two former governors from North West are arrowheads of the plan to oust the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West from his exalted seat as Senate President once the lawmakers returned from their annual vacation.

But reacting through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President of the Senate, Honourable Eseme Eyiboh, the President of the Senate who said he was not bothered further claimed that the reports ” appears to be a syndicated media attack from outside the precincts of the National Assembly.”

He restated his conviction that the reports were mere imaginations laced with malice, and Akpabio noted that the Senate has since moved on after the leadership contest. The plot to drag in Senators who initially did not support the emergence of the present leadership into a conspiracy that does not exist was uncharitable to the Senators”.

“Senators are presently concluding their holidays in their constituencies and other places they have chosen to spend their time after the rigours of the inauguration and ministerial screening.

“All senators are also refreshing themselves ahead of resumption, and suggestions that they are presently engaged in other subversive plots against the institution is rather uncharitable. It is especially uncharitable for those Senators who initially did not support the emergence of the leadership but who have all unanimously endorsed the Senator Akpabio-led leadership.

”Continuing to link these Senators with one conspiracy or the other with barely disguised innuendo is rather unkind. We call on the Media not to give in to the conspiratorial tales and to please not give damage to the reputations that they have built over time,” he concluded.


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