A video making rounds online captured the moment the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, made fun of the opposition parties as he read the defection letter of former Governor of Sokoto State and current Senator, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, during the plenary.
Akpabio, while confirming Tambuwal’s move to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), in a letter and a series of resignations from the Labour Party (LP) and other minority caucus members, paused, visibly amused by the state of the opposition parties.
Mocking the disarray within opposition parties, Akpabio said, “Oh, PDP is gone! Even the Labour Party is dead. I’ve read about three different political parties now.”
Akpabio further dismissed claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was behind the opposition’s crisis, attributing the turmoil to leadership failures within the parties themselves.
He added, “You cannot accuse the ruling party of tampering with their leadership because here you have APGA, you have Labour, you have MVP, and all those things. So all of them have a problem. They’ve not been able to put their parties together. So, APC cannot be blamed for this. They are all out to ensure that we have a minority status in this chamber, and I am very proud of them.”
