Senate Presidency: Show Capacity Or Withdraw For Yari – Pro-Democracy Group Tells Akpabio

A pro-democracy group, Coalition for Parliamentary Democracy (CPD) has asked Senator Godswill Akpabio to quit the Senate Presidency if he has no legislative capacity that can earn him the support of his colleagues for the Office of the Senate President.

The group, in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by its National Coordinator, Dr. Menike Johnson, asserted that zoning and external endorsements “are undemocratic and only promotes mediocrity, incompetence and breeds a corrupt and rubber stamp parliamentary leadership that cannot serve the interest of the Nigerians.