Saraki stops Akpabio During Senate Planary

For more than twenty- five minutes Wednesday, the Senate Plenary was held amidst rowdiness over sitting arrangement.

Senate Chamber Trouble started when the former Senate Minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom North West called for recognition to speak, but the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki refused him on the grounds that he cannot speak, using another Senator’s microphone.

According to Saraki, Akpabio can also not speak from a seat where there was no Microphone.

Akpabio stood up to speak shortly after the Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Bassey Albert Akpan, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Akwa Ibom North East, had raised the alarm of alleged plans by the APC
in the State to cause mayhem and to ensure that 2019 general elections do not hold in the state which has before now adjudged one of the most peaceful States in the country.

Saraki refused Akpabio to use the Microphone of the former Senate leader, Senator Ali Ndume, just as he said that since the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State was sitting on a seat where no microphone is, there was no way he would be allowed to raise any issue from there.

For this reason, the hallowed chamber became very rowdy as the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and Senator Emmanuel Paulker who made frantic efforts to speak on the issue could not speak.

It would be recalled that Akpabio has resigned as the Minority leader in August having dumped the PDP for the APC.