By Seyi Babalola
The President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has strongly rejected claims by Senator Elisha Abbo that the Senate President influenced the judgment of the Court of Appeal that sacked him from the Senate.
The Court of Appeal on Monday had sealed Abbo’s fate, removing him from the 10th Senate and paving way for the opposition and PDP senatorial candidate in Adamawa North to replace him in the Red Chamber, Nigeria’s upper legislative arm.
Akpabio’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity and official Spokesperson Hon Eseme Eyiboh, in a statement issued on Tuesday, expressed shock at the assertions of the former Adamawa North senator describing his claims as delinquent, provocative and unbecoming of a Distinguished Senator.
“It is only a diseased and uninformed mind that will not believe that the outcome of any court proceeding is a function of the evaluation of facts and evidence within the province of the rule of law.
“It is uncharitable for Senator Abbo to vent his frustrations on Senator Akpabio or anyone else and his action betrays the bile he has for Senator Akpabio.
“Democracy is founded on the rule of law, so for anybody to accuse one of the strong agents of democracy and governance in the mould of Senator Godswill Akpabio, such an individual must be a monument of self-pity and his swan-song a discordant escape from reality.”
Eyiboh further added: “Senator Akpabio for emphasis has no ill-will towards any of his distinguished colleagues and as he has said in the past, the embers of the leadership election have been buried and replaced by the fraternal bond of nation building he shares with the overwhelming majority of senators.”
