Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio’s emergence as President of the 10th Senate on 13th June, 2023 raised high expectations. Not just because
President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, presided over the Senate plenary on Tuesday,February 20, 2024. Photo: Twitter
The first experience was when Adamawa Senator Elisha Abbo raised an alarm over the Constitution of the Senate Standing Committees. He alleged that his fellow northern Senators had been unfairly treated. And for this, he just stopped short of calling for the head of Akpabio. Abbo was actually not speaking for himself alone. He was the Secretary of the Northern Senators Forum.
The suspension was lifted about two weeks before the expiration of the three months. This followed a motion moved on May 28, 2024 , by Senate Minority Leader, Abba Moro. Ningi eventually returned to his seat at the Senate Chamber on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, without holding a grudge against anybody. According to the letter, which the Senate President read in Plenary on August 4, 2023, one of the options on ECOWAS’ table was the “deployment of personnel for military intervention to enforce compliance of the military Junta in Niger should they remain recalcitrant.” Under the Nigerian constitution, the President cannot deploy troops outside the borders without an approval of the Senate.
On the international scene, Akpabio, in October 2023, led the Nigerian delegation to the 147th General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union , which held in Luanda, Angola. It was his first appearance at the meeting as the Senate President. At that meeting, he was elected into the Executive Committee of IPU. The last time Nigeria had that privilege was in 1964. That was a great feat and triumph of International diplomacy for Nigeria.
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