Demonstrating their support and trust in Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Senate passed a vote of confidence in him on Thursday.
The Senate made a resolution after Senator Yahaya Abdullahi raised a Point of Order about the rumored impeachment of the Senate President.
Referring to Orders 10 and 42 of the Senate Standing Rules, Senator Abdullahi pointed out to the upper chamber that news came out claiming northern senators were planning to impeach the Senate leadership led by Akpabio.
“I am a senior member of the Northern Senators’ Forum, and I can assure you that there is no attempt by any caucus among the northern senators to bring discord or any attempt to challenge the unity of what you are doing in the Senate.
“My privilege has been breached. Anyone trying to bring division across any regional line is undermining the progress of our democracy and the capacity of this institution to deliver.
“Therefore, we must rise and get united under the leadership to ensure that this kind of discourse is completely negated so that the kind of unity that we have forged in the last 18 months can be sustained and fully accomplished.
“I rise with you in the sense of your master heart, and I’m sure all of my colleagues also feel the same.
“For us to be characterised as either promoting or supporting or allowing anybody to bring the leadership of this institution down…
“I have never in my life associated with anybody in order to bring or to divide any institution along ethnic or religious lines.
“I think this is the work of some enemies, which should be resisted, and all of us should stand united behind the Senate leadership to make sure that this institution is preserved,” Abdullahi said.