A former deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, on Wednesday called for the resignation of the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, noting that it is a show of shame, that the Senate President announced that the National Assembly Management had sent special funds to the accounts of senators for them to enjoy their six weeks vacation.
Frank, in a viral video on Wednesday, declared that Akpabio’s revelation on a live national TV was a mockery of democracy and Nigerians.
Timi Frank argued that it is insensitive for the federal lawmakers to enjoy national resources in the name of holidaying at a time Nigerians are facing hardships and other economic challenges; he, therefore, called for immediate resignation of the Senate President.
Akpabio at a special plenary on Monday night, after the Senate had completed the screening and confirmation of ministerial nominees sent by President Bola Tinubu, openly announced: “In order to enable all of us to enjoy our holidays, a token has been sent to our various accounts by the Clerk of the National Assembly.”
As senators protested that the Senate President would not have made such announcement in the open, Akpabio withdraw the statement for the record and rephrasing the announcement as: “In order to enjoy your holidays, the Senate President has sent prayers to your mailboxes to assist you to go on a safe journey and return.”
The Senate adjourned plenary on Monday to September 26, 2023, to observe annual recess.
Timi Frank, repudiating the Senate on the holiday largess, urged President Bola Tinubu to order the immediate resignation of Akpabio.
Frank had declared: “The show of shame that was demonstrated today (Monday) on a live national television where the Senate under Akpabio was telling the whole world and Nigerians that they are going on vacation, and the Clerk of the National Assembly has paid money to every account of the Nigerian Senators.
“This is the biggest joke we’ve seen in recent times, and that is the main reason why I’m making it bold and very clear that Senator God’swill Akpabio must immediately resign as the Senate President. He cannot continue to make mockery of our democracy and make mockery of Nigerians.
“This is the same man who made mockery of the poor, and made it very clear in the Senate chamber by saying ‘Let the poor breathe’. Meanwhile, he was laughing because he knew they will definitely never allow the poor to breathe, they’ll continue to suffocate the poor and that is what he demonstrated today (Monday) on a live TV by sharing the resources that belongs to the poor to their personal accounts.
“Akpabio has shown that since the inception of the Nigerian Senate, this is the most corrupt Senate President ever Nigerians have witnessed.
“I use this opportunity to call on President Ahmed Bola Tinubu to end this joke and Nollywood act of Akpabio, that this is the time he the President must tell Akpabio to resign for this show of shame and national embarrassment, Nigerians can no longer take this in this APC government anymore”.
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