{"id":317557,"date":"2024-04-05T05:53:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=317557"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:53:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:53:42","slug":"budget-padding-ive-no-hand-in-ningis-suspension-akpabio-replies-falana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/04\/05\/budget-padding-ive-no-hand-in-ningis-suspension-akpabio-replies-falana\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Padding: I&#8217;ve no hand in Ningi\u2019s suspension \u2013 Akpabio replies Falana"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Akpabio&#8217;s counsel said the number three citizen did not directly effect the suspension of Ningi, adding that he mere declared the decision reached by the lawmakers after debate and voting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, says he is not behind the suspension of Bauchi Central Senator, Abdul Ningi, over allegations of budget padding.<\/p>\n<p>Ningi had, through his lawyer, Femi Falana, demanded the lifting of his suspension.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to sue the Senate President if his suspension is not lifted within seven days, asserting that the process leading to his suspension was flawed.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/03\/13\/n3-7trn-ningi-being-persecuted-suspended-for-speaking-truth-were-with-him-bauchi-gov-mohammed\/\">Ningi was suspended<\/a> by the Senate on March 12 for three months over his allegation that the 2024 budget was padded with about N3.7 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>However, Akpabio\u2019s counsel, Umeh Kalu, SAN, in a letter to Falana, titled: \u2018Re: Request to Lift the Suspension of Sen. Abdul Ningi\u2019, stressed that the Senate President was not responsible for Ningi\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, Akpabio&#8217;s counsel said the number three citizen did not directly effect the suspension of Ningi, adding that he mere declared the decision reached by the lawmakers after debate and voting.<\/p>\n<p>The letter read: \u201cWe are solicitors to Sen. Godswill Akpabio and write you in respect of the above subject matter at his instance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour letter of March 27, with the above caption has been referred to us with instructions to react thereto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have carefully read through your analysis of the facts and circumstances leading to your client\u2019s suspension from the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are unable to find reason in your verdict of our client\u2019s sole culpability in the said suspension. We therefore plead non est factum for our client.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to the above and contrary to the contents of your letter under reference, our client was at no time your client\u2019s accuser, prosecutor and judge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur client\u2019s role at the session of the Senate that led to your client\u2019s suspension was and remains the statutory role of a Legislative House Presiding Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich role equally includes pronouncing the majority decision of the Legislative House at the end of debate and voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermit us to mention your attempt at drawing our client\u2019s attention to legal authorities and pronouncements of our Courts of record on the unconstitutionality of suspending members of Legislative Houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich attempt we dare say was unhelpful, due to your failure or refusal to make available, the relevant particulars of the said Court decisions in your letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may wish to provide these legal authorities which you have alluded to, bearing in mind that every decision of a court emanates from its peculiar facts, circumstances and extant laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn as much as it may not be necessary to canvass herein all the remedies available to our client, in response to your threats of a court action and petition to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important we mention that legislative proceedings are guided by rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to give due consideration to the legal issues raised in this letter and be guided accordingly in your further and future action in respect of this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akpabio&#8217;s counsel said the number three citizen did not directly effect the suspension of Ningi, adding that he mere declared the decision reached by the lawmakers after debate and voting. 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