Eyiboh dismisses media reports about instability in Nigerian Senate

● Say upper chamber harmoniously working towards greater and better nation

The Nigerian Senate under the leadership of His Excellency, Senator Godswill Akpabio is stable and harmonious and cannot be distracted by the innuendo of the merchants of political tar brush, Eseme Eyiboh, Special Adviser to the Senate President, has said.

In a swift riposte to what, according to him, appeared to be a syndicated media attack from outside the precincts of the National Assembly, Eyiboh, Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, said the reports were not correct.

He said that the syndicated reports in some weekend newspapers about plots to destabilise the Senate and its leadership were complete imaginations of the writers.

Eyiboh said that the reports were laced with malice to achieve what senators had yet to comprehend.

Noting that the Senate has since gone past the experience of the keenly contested leadership election, Eyiboh said the plot to drag in Senators who initially did not support the emergence of the present leadership into a conspiracy that dis not exist was uncharitable to the senators.

He further dismissed the reports as a needless umbrage.

According to him: “Senators are presently concluding their holidays in their constituencies and other places they have chosen to spend their time after the rigours of the inauguration and ministerial screening and other constructive engagements.

“All senators are also refreshing themselves ahead of the resumption. Therefore, any suggestions that they are presently engaged in other subversive plots against the institution are rather uncharitable.

“It is mostly uncharitable and unfair to those senators who initially did not support the emergence of the leadership but who have all unanimously endorsed the Senator Akpabio-led leadership. Continuing to link these senators with needless conspiracy with barely disguised innuendo is rather unkind.

“We call on the media not to give in to the conspiratorial tales and not to give damage to the reputations that they have built over time.”