The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has told sacked Senator Elisha Abbo that he has no hand in his fate.
The representative of Adamawa North Senatorial District accused Akpabio of influencing the decision of the court.
The Court of Appeal had on Monday sacked Abbo.
Reacting to the outcome of the ruling, Abbo, a member of the All Progressives Congress like Akpabio, said the president of the Senate moved against him because of his failure to support him for the leadership of the National Assembly.
He said the same fate will soon befall the representative of Abia North Senatorial District and member of the APC, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, and four others who also did not support Akpabio’s emergence as the president of the Senate.
But reacting through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio strongly rejected claims by Abbo.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, Eyiboh expressed shock at the assertions of the former representative of Adamawa North Senatorial District, describing it as delinquent, provocative and unbecoming of a Distinguished Senator.
He said: “It is only a diseased and uninformed mind that will not believe that the outcome of any court proceeding is a function of the evaluation of facts and evidence within the province of the rule of law.
“It is uncharitable for Senator Abbo to pour his frustrations on Senator Akpabio or anyone else and his action betrays the bile he has for Senator Akpabio.
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“Democracy is founded in the rule of law, so for anybody to accuse one of the strong agents of democracy and governance in the mould of Senator Godswill Akpabio, such an individual must be a monument to self-pity and his swansong a discordant escape from reality.
“Senator Akpabio for emphasis has no ill-will towards any of his distinguished colleagues and as he has said in the past, the embers of the leadership election have been buried and replaced by the fraternal bond of nation building he shares with the overwhelming majority of senators.”
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