President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has sparked reactions on social media after he mocked the disarray within opposition parties on the floor of the Senate during plenary.
Akpabio’s comments came while he was reading an official
defection letter from the former Governor of Sokoto State and current Senator,
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, confirming his move to the African Democratic Congress,
ADC.
The letter also highlighted a series of resignations from
the Labour Party, LP and other minority caucus members.
As he read, Akpabio paused, visibly amused by the state of
the opposition, and made light of their internal struggles, saying, “Oh, PDP is
gone!”
He added, “Even the Labour Party is dead. I’ve read about
three different political parties now,” as he recounted further defections from
the LP.
Akpabio seized the opportunity to dismiss claims that the
ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was behind the opposition’s troubles.
He attributed the turmoil to leadership failures within the
parties themselves.
“You cannot accuse the ruling party of tampering with their
leadership because here you have APGA, you have Labour, you have MVP, and all
those things. So all of them have a problem. They’ve not been able to put their
parties together. So, APC cannot be blamed for this. They are all out to ensure
that we have a minority status in this chamber, and I am very proud of them,”
Akpabio said.
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