Senator Yemi Adaramodu, the Senate spokesman, has declared that Senate President Godswill Akpabio will not resign.
Adaramodu was replying to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) demand that Akpabio resign immediately following the suspension of Bauchi Central Senator Abdul Ningi.
The Senate had suspended Ningi for three months due to his claims of N3.7 trillion in budget padding.
As a result, the PDP demanded Akapbio’s resignation and an immediate investigation into the allegations.
Reacting, Adaramodu, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, told journalists on Thursday:
“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.
“Akpabio will not resign and has no intention to resign at any time because he has not committed any wrongdoing to warrant resignation.”