Amid ongoing speculation about a dispute between Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Senate leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, the upper chamber has come out to clarify and set the record straight.
The Nigerian Senate on Sunday via a statement signed by Yemi Adaramodu, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs stated clearly that there is no rift between the two lawmakers.
AFRIPOST reports that several reports had claimed that Godswill Akpabio and Opeyemi Bamidele had a clash during an executive session.
Meanwhile, in a statement on Sunday, the Senate committee on Media and Public Affairs stated; “Our attention has been drawn to diverse media reports claiming that president of the Senate, His Excellency Godswill Akpabio, and leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, clashed during an executive session recently convened to deliberate whether the Senate should proceed on annual recess.
“The reports do not contain any iota of truth. In entirety, they misconstrue time-tested practices and traditions in the parliament worldwide, where members, regardless of their political leanings, leverage the instruments of parliamentary debates, questions or interpellations to discuss every initiative decisively and eclectically before approval or authorisation.
“Whether in the chamber or committee room, debates on policy issues should not be misconstrued as altercations among members, neither do they suggest any crack in the rank of the leadership.”