Senators on Tuesday bickered and openly engaged in uproar over a television interview by Senator Adams Oshiomhole, representing Edo North senatorial district, alleging that the ninth Senators looted their offices at the end of their tenure in June.
Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan, representing Ogun West senatorial district, fired the salvo through a point of order where he drew the attention of his colleagues to the interview on Channels Television‘s Politics Today last night.
Adeola said his privilege has been breached by virtue of the interview, having been a Senator representing Lagos West senatorial district in the ninth Senate.
He insisted that Oshiomhole should tender an “unreserved apology for saying that Senators looted their offices”.
Senator Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), who is also a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, backed Adeola and asked for an apology from Oshiomhole.
Amid uproar, the Senate Chief Whip, Mohammed Ali Ndume (Borno South) raised a counter point of order and demanded that the red chamber be dissolved into an executive session, saying that the matter was sensitive.
At that point, some Senators felt embarrassed and shouted, asking that the matter be discussed in full glare of journalists.
However, when the motion to go into closed door session was put to voice vote, Senators opted that the matter be discussed in plenary by voting “nay”.
At this point, Senate President Godswill Akpabio called on Oshiomhole to approach the chair. After a brief talk with him, Akpabio called on Oshiomhole to state his own side of the matter.
Oshiomhole then apologised and said he actually defended the immediate past Senators, instead.
