Senators serve acpabio tea at home; He manages Senate like Personal Empire —Senator Abbo

Abbo spoke on Arise TV on Wednesday, claiming that Akpabio has orchestrated the removal of five senators, including himself. Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo has accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of targeting the Nigerian Senate like a personal empire and targeting senators who oppose his view. Abbo spoke on Arise TV on Wednesday, claiming that Akpabio has orchestrated the removal of five senators, including himself. Former Adamawa North Senator claimed that Akpabio informed him privately of the planned discharge. “He told me that five senators would be removed. I asked how he knows, and he said, ‘I am the president of the Senate. I know. “True to his words, five of us have been removed. Abbo, who supported Senator Abdulaziz Yari’s bid for the Senate president, said Akpabio was trying to win him with personal appeals and financial incentives. “He came to my hotel room at about 2am and asked for my support. I told him that I was already committed to Yari. Later, at a meeting in Transcorp Hilton, $ 10,000 was distributed, but I refused to take money,” he said. He further accused Akpabio of denying him refusal compensation, blocking his participation in an international parliamentary assignment and withholding his official vehicle after being removed from office. “Every other senator removed by the courts got their vehicles, but I was excluded. It is the level of fairness that shows Akpabio,” he said. He said: “Let’s look at Senator Ali Ndume now. When he raised concerns about the way things are performed in the Senate, he was removed as chief whip and deprived of his position as Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee for approval.” I also have a motion to edit the senior rules, so only senators that could dispute at least one term for the Senate leadership. But what did acpabio do? He rewrote the rules to allow the first term senators to become leaders of both the majority and minority shows- only so that he could control them. “Do you know that senators serve him in akpabio’s home tea?” “Well, I’m telling you now. And I said to him, ‘You are no longer a governor. These senators are our colleagues, not your commissioners. They are not here to serve your tea, ” Abbo claims. “I always defended the integrity of the Senate. The issue is the leadership, not the institution itself. ‘