‘NO MORE HOSTILITIES’- AKPABIO APOLOGISES TO OSHIOMOLE OVER REMARKS ON FOOT MASSAGE VIDEO
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BY JENN NOMAMIUKOR
Senate President Godswill Akpabio apologized to Adams Oshiomhole, the senator from Edo North, on Thursday for calling one of Oshiomhole’s past comments “unsenatorial.”
The incident happened during a plenary session. Akpabio made a brief mention of Oshiomhole’s earlier remark about Mele Kyari, who was the former group chief executive officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC).He had used the phrase “dead or alive” in reference to Kyari.
On June 10, Oshiomhole backed a motion during a meeting of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts.The motion was about issuing a warrant of arrest for Kyari because he had not appeared before the committee multiple times.Oshiomhole said Kyari should be brought in, whether he was alive or not.
The next day, Opeyemi Bamidele, who leads the Senate, proposed a motion on the floor of the Senate. This motion was to show that the Senate does not support issuing a warrant of arrest against Kyari. Bamidele also criticized Oshiomhole for his position on the matter.
In a subsequent podcast appearance, Oshiomhole alleged that Akpabio influenced the employment of his daughter at the NNPC.
He also accused the senate president of harbouring bias against him and suggested that Akpabio would gladly shut him out of the chamber if handed the opportunity.
Raising a point of order, Oshiomhole jokingly accused the senate president of breaching a truce they had reached to stop making light-hearted references to each other’s past controversies.
“I want to report to this house that the senate president and I, we signed a truce of no more hostilities. And the senate president breached the truce by reverting to a previous matter,” Oshiomhole said.
“So I told Mr Senate President, the truce is signed. You should not violate; I will not violate. You are my brother. You are my leader. You are my president.”
The Edo north senator, however, said he would not pursue the matter further.
“I am not going to read the order I am doing. Order 72, I hereby drop it. Just to say, sir, protect vertically challenged people in the senate,” he said, eliciting laughter from the chamber.
Responding, Akpabio apologised, saying he had no intention of offending Oshiomhole
“Let me, first of all, apologise to distinguished Senator Oshiomhole. If whatever I said could have in any way injured him or inferred to offend him,” he said.
The senate president reaffirmed the agreement between both lawmakers.
“Sorry, we have a truce. No more hostilities. Agreement is agreement. I will never refer to your comments as unsenatorial again, especially when you said, ‘bring the man dead or alive’. The truce between us remains upheld,” he said.
He described Oshiomhole as his brother, friend and former colleague in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).
“I hold him in very high esteem. And I assure you that agreement is agreement. I will not behave like America and Iran. When they have an agreement today, and two days later they will bomb each other,” he added.
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