By Abdulateef Bamgbose

As the crisis in the upper legislative Chamber of the National Assembly, over the style of the leadership by the president of the Senate, Senator Godswill assumed another dimension in the Senate on Tuesday, dominating the headlines, All Progressive Congress ( APC ), Chieftain and other stakeholders outside the Senate have been drawn into the trenches, with a call for APC, to Caution the Senate president or to resign his office.

Signs that the crisis rocking the leadership of the Senate may not thaw any moment soon started emerging on Wednesday.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja, on Wednesday, Dr. Haruna Gololo Gololo, an All Progressive Congress,( APC), Chieftain, from the North has called on the APC leadership to call the president of the Senate, senator Godswill Akpabio to order or he shows the way out of the office.

” He has to be cautioned and called to order immediately, the APC as a party has to be careful, if Akpabio cannot provide leadership, he better pack his kayak( property), and drop from the office.

As a retired military officer, I am aware as the Commander, you don’t begin to remove your Commanding Officers ( CO), who are you going to put there, the platoon commander or sector Commander?”

” The point is that the Senate president is not from the North, so he doesn’t know the impact of the border closure and the negative impact on the Northerners, because when the border opens for instance now a bag of Corn is 70,000, guinea Corn is 70000, if the border is open it must be more cheaper than this, so the continuous closure of the border is affecting the North.”

” The Senate president is not from the North, he is from Akwa- Ibom, he doesn’t know what is happening in the North, because for him to shut down Senator Ali Mohamed Ndume, we cannot take that. Senator Ndume is one of the most respected Senators from the North, he is the Senator we regard in the North today” Gololo said.

The former Coordinator of the Tinubu/ Shettima Presidential Campaign in the North East said that ” it is only Ndume and Elisha Abbo, that has been speaking for the North, now Senator Abbo has been fired out of the Senate by the same people, so we don’t know whether senator Godswill Akpabio has personal grudges against the Northerners.”

Continue, he told me newsmen” It was senator Ali Ndume, as a Director General of his campaign that brought him to office as senate president, against all odds.”

Gololo alleged that Akpabio is weakening the APC leadership in the Senate ahead of 2027.

In his words ” You know he decamps from The people’s Democratic Party, PDP, to APC, so he is working underground for 2027, maybe soon he will decamp back to PDP, because of how he is going and what he is doing.

He is working against APC lawmakers. The more you reduce the number in the Chamber, the same number that gave him the Senate president office, the more you reduce the strength of the APC, because the election of the Senate president could have gone any other way, it could have been PDP or Labour party, as at the time he was elected to the office of the president of the Senate”
” He is reducing the number because he doesn’t want APC to exist against 2027″

Similarly, the All Progressive Congress ( APC), has called on the Senate not to confirm the appointment of the new EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, as according to him it is against the the law that established EFCC and against the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

” The law is very explicit and clear, it says 15 years, and from the rank of AC and above, the nominee is just a lawyer, it is not about court proceedings.”

He appealed to the presidency to reverse the nomination in the interest of justice saying
” Follow the law because, if you are a president, and you don’t follow the law, how do you expect the common man or ordinary Nigerians to follow the law?”

” The president should lead by example, something must be done, we are not saying it is because he is from the South, anybody can be appointed, but let us follow the law.”

Gololo, commended the president, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, for appointing the ICPC chairman from the North, but insisted due process must be adhered to in giving out of appointment.
He described the recent confirmation of the Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission ( NNDC), as an aberration saying.”

” It is just like the confirmation of the NNDC Chairman after acting for five years, making it ten years. You mean there is nobody from all the states in the South who can be appointed?
All the appointments from the South-south are from Akwa-Ibom.”

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