Alleged Corruption: Resign Now, Else… – NDWL Tells Akpabio
Niger Delta Women League (NDWL), has demanded the immediate resignation of the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio over his infamous gaffes during plenary of the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
The NDWL said that in the alternative, members of the Senate should rise and speak for the people of Nigeria by ensuring the impeachment of Akpabio if he fails to resign.
The League in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, August 21, 2023 by its national president, Hon. Sheila Abiye Tamuno and endorsed by ten other stakeholders, described the emergence of Akpabio as Senate President as a disgrace to the country in general and the Niger Delta geo-political zone in particular due to his alleged antecedents of corruption cases.
The NDWL noted that for a man under investigation by anti-corruption agencies over multiple levels of sleazes to be handed the sacred position of the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was a joke taken too far thereby made Nigeria a laughing stock before the international community.
In the words of the NDWL; “The same Akpabio, who in the guise of supervising the NDDC forensic audit, rather used the period under review as a cover to heartlessly plunder the Commission and the entire Niger Delta region to the tune of #1.4 Trillion Naira, using Akwa as sole Administrator.
“The same act he committed without Senate approval amounting to extra-budgetary expenditure.”
The women group vowed that they would mobilise one million women to the National Assembly if Akpabio fails to resign as expected.
The statement further stated; “We shall be mobilizing one million Niger Delta Women on the 26th September 2023 to the gate Of the National Assembly to either thank the Senate or pressure them to do the needful”.
