No plan to remove Akume from post

RUMOURS making the round that the Senate leadership plans to remove the Minority Leader,George Akume, has been refuted by the Upper House.In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday, the Senate Majority Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, said the Upper House was not aware or involved in the alleged plot.He said its attention had been drawn to media reports where Akume claimed that there was a plot to remove him from office and that the Senate Majority Leadership was behind the scheme.Ndoma-Egba said the clarification was prompted by the fact that Akume had not denied the report credited to him on the issue.He said: 'The Senate Majority Leadership is not aware of any plot to remove the Senate Minority Leader, George Akume, from office except what has been published in the newspapers by him as, well as his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).'The Senate said its modus operandi does not vest in the leadership the power to elect or remove the Minority Leader and advised Akume to provide the required leadership and earn the confidence of the minority.'We also wish to emphasise that the workings of the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, do not place the emergence or removal of a Senate Minority Leader within the powers of the Senate Majority Leadership. Senator Akume's allegation is, therefore, a tissue of unguided and misplaced falsehood.'The allegation smacks of ignorance on how Senate businesses are conducted because the majority party does participate in the election or removal of the Minority Leader.''It is, therefore, imperative to state, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Senate Majority Leadership is neither interested nor involved in any alleged plot to remove Akume as Senate Minority Leader.Akume recently drew attention to the plot to remove him from office when the chamber reconvenes next month.
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