Last week, Sunday Sun had exclusively reported plot by 22 All Progressives Congress (APC) senators to defect to the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following the tension created by the election of the presiding officers in the 10th Senate.
In the event that the 22 senators make good their threat, the opposition would have 72 senators while the APC would be left with 37.
This notwithstanding, former Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, had in a viral video debunked reports that the ballot papers used in the 10th Senate election were doctored with barcodes, saying that “there was no funny business conducted on the floor of the hallowed chambers during the June 13 election held to determine who becomes the Senate President.”
His words: “Let me be honest with you, the election in the Senate was very transparent. Senator Akpabio won the election. It was free; it was fair. I congratulate the Clerk of the National Assembly. I congratulate the Clerk and all the staff of the Senate. You know, I cannot lie against my conscience. Akpabio won the election hands down.”
Insisting on the transparency of the exercise, he said that there are no two senates in the history of the Senate. “There is only one Senate. June 13 was the day we decided to have one Senate,” Kalu said
But some of Kalu’s colleagues who spoke to our correspondent disagreed with him, predicting that the tenure of the newly elected Senate President Akpabio would not be completed.
Credit: The Nigeria Lawyer