Akpabio, Ningi clash over govs’ security votes

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and former Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Abdul Ningi, on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over what governors expend their security votes on.

Ningi represents Bauchi Central senatorial district on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

He had in a debate that followed the motion of urgent national importance on incessant banditry attacks, killings and displacement of innocent Nigerians in some villages in Billiri Local Government Area of Gombe State, pondered why governors were not using their security votes to address the insecurity in their states.