A Civil Society Organisation (CSO), National Association For Peaceful Coexistence and Good Governance has threatened to organise a massive protest against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio over allegation of budget padding leveled against him by suspended Senator Abdul Ningi.
Comrade Isiaku Balogun Nathaniel, founder of the organisation stated this in a press statement on Saturday, pointing out that the Senate President couldn’t justify the padding of the budget.
Recall that Ningi had alleged that the Senate padded the 2024 budget by over N3.7 trillion, the matter that triggered rumbles in the Red Chambers of the National Assembly, leading to the Senator’s suspension for three months.
Nathaniel called on President Bola Tinubu to probe Ningi’s allegations, call the leadership of the Senate to make clarification and reinstate the suspended senator within one week otherwise the group will mobilise Nigerian youth to stage massive protests in the nation’s capital.
According to him, the senators are supposed to get the sum of about N200 million each annually for constituency projects alleging, however, that Akpabio alone earmarked the sum of over N20 billion for himself alone in the budget.
Nathaniel stated that Ningi’s revelation was in the best interest of the nation, describing his suspension as a witch-hunt and unfair to his constituency that now lacks representation in the Senate.
He said: “We’re going to mobilise ourselves in our numbers. We’re approaching the National Assembly, we’re staging massive protests till the president deems it fit to call the senate president to order.
“We’re giving them seven days’ notice from today (Saturday) to do the needful. We’re going to barricade the National Assembly to call for transparency and accountability because Nigerians want to know what and what the senators are using N3.7 trillion to do,” he added.
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