Recurring vote of confidence in Akpabio shows there’s crisis in senate -Ologbondiyan

Recurring vote of confidence in Akpabio shows there’s crisis in senate -Ologbondiyan

Kola Ologbondiyan, former national publicity secretary of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says the recurring vote of confidence in
Senate President Godswill Akpabio is proof that there is no peace in the upper
legislative chamber.

 

He spoke on Thursday when he appeared on Channels
Television’s ‘Politics Today’ programme.

 

The senate passed a vote of confidence in Akpabio on March
13 amid the ongoing controversy over the sexual harassment allegation levelled
against him by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

 

Opeyemi Bamidele, the senate leader, moved the motion,
citing the need to reaffirm support for Akpabio.

 

The motion was seconded by Olalere Oyewumi, deputy minority
leader and senator representing Osun west.

 

The confidence vote came two days after Akpoti-Uduaghan, the
senator representing Kogi central, took her allegation against the senate
president to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in New York.

 

Ologbondiyan said the vote of confidence in Akpabio was
“worrisome”.

 

“On the issue of sexual harassment and vote of confidence, I
think senator Godswill Akpabio, the senate president, will be the first
president of the senate that will have sequentially close to three or four
votes of confidence in a space of less than two years, and I think that should
be worrisome to himself, and to the senate as an institution,” he said.

 

“Because the concept of vote of confidence, if you
understudy it, it shows that there is crisis, and the presiding officer needs
to be protected or needs to be reassured that the floor is with him. That is
why you talk about the vote of confidence.

 

“So I think that the fact that vote of confidence has become
a recurring decimal in this particular senate shows that there is no peace in
the senate.

 

“And if there is peace in the senate, then it means that it
could be a peace of the graveyard.”

 

The senate last passed a vote of confidence in Akpabio on
October 17, 2024, after it was rumoured that there was a plot to impeach him.

Source: Recurring vote of confidence in Akpabio shows there’s crisis in senate -Ologbondiyan

 - NigerianEye

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