Minority Leader of Nigeria’s Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has
said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) could have produced the Senate
President, if lawmakers elected on the party’s platform were greedy.
He stated this during a special session to mark the second
anniversary of the 8th Senate on Friday.
Akpabio also said the achievements of the upper legislative
chamber in two years, had shown that PDP not producing the Senate President was
a good decision.
“I must congratulate my family, the PDP family for not
showing any greed. If we had shown greed on that day, we could have produced
the senate president.
“I recall when one of you came to me and said, ‘Look at the
chamber – we trippled the APC members, let us nominate somebody for the office
of the senate president’ and I said ‘No, let’s not do that’… the APC had come
with a mantra of change and if we produce the senate president, they will turn
all the blame of us if things go wrong, that they wanted to do change but look
at this people.
“Two years down the line, you can see that we are right for
not going for the office of the senate president,” Akpabio said.
By Ifreke Inyang
