By Nse Peter
Senators from Peoples’ Democratic Party have surprisingly
rejected the plans by the senate to probe the chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crime Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, The Punch newspaper has reported.
The paper reports that the position of the PDP senators is
contained in a statement signed by the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio and other
three other officers of the senate.
According to the news report, the reason given by Akpabio
and his co-PDP senators is that it wasn’t the appropriate time to probe the anti-corruption
agency, “particularly
since the same action was mooted and had failed at previous plenary session”.
The
PDP senators “urge the committee (on Ethics, Privileges and Public
Petitions) to suspend
its public hearing on this particular matter until further notice”.
Think Akwa Ibom! learned that Akpabio over
the weekend summoned an emergency meeting of some key officers of PDP within
the senate, where he informed them that the planned probe of EFCC may appear as
if the senate was spoiling for war against President Muhammadu Buhari which
could attract unpleasant consequences to some PDP senators. He persuaded the
senators to join him in kicking against the planned probe.
Akpabio’s
latest moves in the senate, political analysts say, is aimed at
self-preservation. The former Akwa Ibom governor has been on the spotlight since
he became a member of the current senate, after a report published in a
national daily alleged that he bankrolled Senator Bukola Saraki’s ‘coup’ against Buhari and APC
during the battle for the position of senate president.
Akpabio
also recently accused Buhari of using the Department of State Security to selectively target
INEC commissioners in PDP-controlled states of Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Abia so as to
pave the way for APC to take over those states.
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