*Denies promising senatorial tickets for losers of APC primary elections
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has explained the Senate’s refusal to probe military spending, stressing that subjecting the military to a public legislative inquisition at a critical time when the Nigerian troops were engaged on multiple fronts against terrorism, banditry, and other grave threats to national security risked undermining their morale and operational effectiveness.
Akpabio has also denied reports claiming he promised to secure senatorial tickets for incumbent senators who lost their party primaries, describing them as misleading and a gross misrepresentation of his position.
Explaining the reasons for the lawmakers’ rejection of a senator’s call for a probe of military spending, Akpabio, in a statement issued yesterday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon. Eseme Eyiboh, insisted that the present moment was not appropriate for a public investigation of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
