The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Saturday, dismissed rumours of plots by lawmakers to change the leadership of the Red Chamber.
Information Nigeria understands that reports on the imminent change of the Senate leadership surfaced on social media during the week.
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Eseme Eyiboh, the Senate President said the National Assembly under his leadership was stable and harmonious.
He said the reports were complete imaginations and laced with malice to achieve what senators were yet to comprehend.
Akpabio stressed that the Senate cannot be distracted by innuendo and what appeared to be a syndicated media attack from outside the National Assembly.
“Senators are presently concluding their holidays in their constituencies and other places they have chosen to spend their time after the rigours of the inauguration and ministerial screening and other constructive engagements.
“All senators are also refreshing themselves ahead of the resumption, therefore, any suggestions that they are presently engaged in other subversive plots against the institution is rather uncharitable.
“It is mostly uncharitable for those senators who initially did not support the emergence of the leadership but who have all unanimously endorsed the Akpabio-led leadership.
“Continuing to link these senators with needless conspiracy with barely disguised innuendo is rather unkind,” the statement read.
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Similarly, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Yemi Adaramodu, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja said: “Our attention has just been drawn to syndicated satanic verses in a section of the media, of purported and illusory plots of leadership change in the Senate.
“The Nigerian Senate is one united and fraternal family. This imaginative composition is in the realm of the fake and fallacious story of 100 million per legislator.
“It is apt to note that the 10th Senate under the leadership of Senator Godswill Akpabio has carried out its legislative and constitutional duties diligently.
“Within a span of less than 60 legislative days, the Senate has passed life-enhancing bills and motions.
“It has screened and confirmed service chiefs and ministers, among others, apart from very essential oversight functions.
“We urge the fifth columnists, who operate undoubtedly outside the Senate, desperate to cause disharmony through media stunts and thus clipping the wings of Nigeria’s democracy, to take caution.
“The Senate should be allowed fresh air to settle down for its national assignments so that the Nigerian project can move forward.”
