Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia South, has cautioned against allowing state governors to control funding for the proposed state police. Abaribe spoke during plenary on Wednesday. His remarks came as the Senate considered and passed the constitutional amendment bill seeking to establish state police. Seeks a constitutional funding guarantee Abaribe said the constitution should guarantee…
Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia South, has warned Joseph Tegbe, minister-designate for power, to be prepared for resistance from vested interests benefiting from Nigeria’s electricity challenges. Abaribe spoke on Wednesday during Tegbe’s ministerial screening on the floor of the Senate. The lawmaker said the “generator cabal” profits heavily from the country’s poor electricity supply and…
Enyinnaya Abaribe, senator representing Abia South, has announced his defection from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Labour Party. Also, Victor Umeh, representing Anambra Central in the upper chamber, has also joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) from the ADC. The Senate president, Godswill Akpabio, read their letters of defection on the floor of…
Opposition senators on Thursday challenged the Senate leadership over claims that the Electoral Act Amendment Bill retained electronic transmission of election results as provided in the 2022 Act. Instead, they said the Senate approved real-time transmission of results, not the electronic transfer announced by Senate President Godswill Akpabio. The lawmakers made the claim at a…
