By Miracle Ogunde
The Senate has responded to the call made by the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) asking the Senate President to resign as a result of the alleged N3.7tn budget padding.
The spokesman for the Senate, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, declared that Senate President Godswill Akpabio will not resign from his position.
Adaramodu, while reacting to the demand by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, told journalists on Thursday that “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.
Adaramodu, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, insisted that Akpabio will not resign and has no intention to resign at any time because he has not committed any wrongdoing to warrant resignation.”
The Senate had suspended the Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, Ningi for three months over his claims of N3.7 trillion in budget padding.
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