Addressing the Senate on the incessant security challenges across the country, Senator Ali Ndume (APC – Borno South), reminded Senate President Godswill Akpabio that he was part of the eighth Senate in which Dr. Abubakar Saraki was the president.
According to Ndume, “our security (agencies) have the capability. All they need is training, equipment, motivation. That’s what they need. But we can do it.
“Now the President (Akpabio), he headed – when he was the Senate Leader – he headed three committees and made far-reaching decisions. You were part of the Saraki Senate as a Minority Leader…”
Cutting in, Akpabio said: “I was a part of Nigerian Senate, not Saraki’s Senate. If you said I was part of Saraki’s Senate, it means I was part of those who paid 40 per cent on constituency project and 60 per cent was not being paid till today. I don’t want to be part of that”.
Saraki Senate Presidency was in the first term of the Muhammadu Buhari administration (2015 – 2019), and Akpabio, who was then in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, served as Senate Minority Leader during the session.
