The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South) has responded to the call by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that Senate President Godswill Akpabio should resign over the N3.7trn budget padding allegations by the suspended Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central).
Adaramodu insisted that there was no justification for asking Akpabio to resign, describing as shocking the fact that the PDP leadership dcould not comprehend what transpired at Tuesday’s plenary where the allegations were debated and Senator Abdul Ningi, who was given the ample opportunity to defend himself and prove the budget padding allegations was suspended after he failed to substantiate his claims in the full glare of the public.
The Senate Spokesperson said: “The PDP has elevated chicanery to statecraft and fatally failed in their sordid attempt to hoodwink the unsuspecting public, on the ineffectual but spurious allegations of budget padding. The party’s ludicrous call for the resignation of Senator Godswill Akpabio as the Senate President is unthinkable and shows the party as a massaging balm for falsehood and immoral Legislative outbursts. He stated that Akpabio will not resign and has no intention to resign at any time because he has not committed any wrong doing to warrant a resignation.
