OSHIOMHOLE DEMANDS AKPABIO'S RESIGNATION OVER PROPOSED SENATE RULE AMENDMENT

"Now, let me say why this thing has serious moral crisis. The senate president became minority leader on his fourth day in office, when he was sworn in, on his first term, when he got into the senate, I think it in the ninth or eighth senate, right? He became a principal officer, minority leader.

He's now the one presiding and asking us to change this rule such that even somebody who did first term, you can't even be. 

Number two, as we speak today, the senate president has not done eight years in office. Even if you count the previous one plus the current one, it's not yet up to eight years.

So if we pass the rules that you must do eight consecutive years before you can be senate president, it means he has to lead by example by vacating because he's presiding without acquiring the appropriate qualification. 

But more offensive to me is that as leaders who are product of bylaws, we mustn't make laws to perpetrate anyone. 

Senator David Mark had the honour and privilege of serving as senate president for eight years, not by playing with the rules.

Those rules that enabled David Mark to preside for eight years, what is wrong with them?
Those rules that enabled this senate president to contest for senate presidency, what is wrong with them? Why changing it now? 

Because you think that next time, because last time, this rule of one term ranking, that's what you require. And he turned out to be the only one from the south-south where it was zoned to. 

So now you hear that more senators will be eligible, which will broaden the competition base.

And now he wants to change it. If other people are afraid, I'm not afraid. I'm only afraid of my creator.

Because I've seen whether you tell the l!e, you tell the truth, the date of death, you can't adjust it either forward or backward."

~ Senator Adams Oshiomhole calls for Senate President Godswill Akpabio’s resignation over proposed amendment of senate standing rules.