The former Senate Majority Whip of the ninth Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has stated that the election of presiding officers of the 10th Senate which held on 13th June, 2023 was free, fair and credible.
Kalu spoke while reacting to rumours making the round that 22 Senators of the All Progressives Congress, APC are angrily planning to defect to the opposition party as a result of the outcome of the Senate presiding officers’ election that produced Senator Godswill Akpabio as Senate President.
The former governor of Abia was seen in a video which was uploaded on his verified Facebook account, saying that in all honesty, “the election in the Senate was very transparent. Senator Akpabio won the election. It was free, it was fair.
“I congratulate the Clerk of the National Assembly, I congratulate the Clerk and all the Staff of the Senate. You know I cannot lie against my conscience. Akpabio won the election hands down.
“There was no controversy about who won the election. If there is anything anyother person wants to say, that is their business. Akpabio, to my conscience, to my seeing and to my honour, won the election and we have since congratulated him,” he stated.
Speaking further, Kalu, who also aspired for the office of the President of the Senate said, ” there are no two Senate in the history of the Senate. There is only one Senate. On the 13th of June, was the day we decided to have one Senate.
” There is no pro and anti Akpabio Senators. Even Senator Abdulaziz Yari, understands we have to work with Akpabio. He is the Senate President. We have congratulated him and I am using this Sallah period to appeal to our people to come together and work as one Senate, he declared.”
