Former President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has described as cheap politics and trivialising of a serious issue the claim by incumbent Senate President, Godswill Akpabio that the call on him to ensure that transparent and open process is instituted to investigate the accusation levelled against him by one of his colleagues, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is an attempt to remove a Niger Delta person from office.
Saraki, in a statement signed by Yusuph Olaniyonu, the head of his media office in Abuja, urged Akpabio to read his press statement dated March 1st, 2025 very well to understand that there was nowhere he suggested the resignation of the Senate President.
He advised that Akpabio should act in the best interest of the legislative institution by ensuring that no reasonable person is left with any doubt about the fact that the allegations raised by the Senator were investigated and justifiably dispensed with.
The former Senate President Said he made it clear that his intervention was neither about Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan nor whether her claim was right or not adding that, since the Senator has gone public with such serious allegations against the presiding officer, the image of the institution should be saved through an honest, sincere, open, transparent, and unbiased investigation.
Saraki said he is of the firm belief that the suggestions are for the benefit of the legislative institution promising to repeat the same suggestion no matter where the Senate President comes from and whichever party he belongs to.
The former Senate President believed that when a sensitive matter suggesting sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and mistreatment of women comes up anywhere, it evokes the pains that thousands of women across the nooks and crannies of the society experience daily.
