Akpabio breaks silence on senate 'creating 12 new states', see real fact

• Senate President Godswill Akpabio officially denied reports making the rounds connected societal media that it has approved the instauration of 12 caller states crossed the country
• Speaking connected the level of the legislature connected Tuesday, July 22, nether Order 42 of the Senate Standing Orders, Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central ) dismissed the study arsenic fake
• Akpabio corroborated Ningi, stating emphatically that the legislature has not taken immoderate determination connected authorities creation

Legit.ng writer Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has implicit 9 years of acquisition covering elections, politics, and governance successful Nigeria.

FCT, Abuja - Godswill Obot Akpabio, Nigeria's legislature president, connected Tuesday, July 22, dismissed the study that the precocious legislative enclosure approved the instauration of 12 caller states successful the country.

Speaking during plenary, Akpabio, the legislator representing Akwa Ibom north-west district, stressed that the legislature "has not adjacent concluded the processes of getting the last study for deliberation".

Godswill Akpabio, the legislature president, denies passing measure to make 12 caller states successful Nigeria. Photo credit: Godswill Obot Akpabio
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Fake quality connected authorities creation

His words:

"I anticipation that the mode Africans usage societal media volition not interruption society; that is my lone hope. You see, adjacent for appointments to beryllium made, they volition spell and make fake letterhead insubstantial and constitute that the idiosyncratic has rejected the appointment."

Akpabio added:

"No azygous state, projected oregon otherwise, has been created. Even if that were to beryllium the case, it would impact each the houses of assemblies successful the country. And we indispensable get their two-third concurrence earlier thing tin travel backmost to us. And the 2 chambers, the location of representatives and legislature indispensable besides beryllium involved."

Speaking further, Akpabio said though determination are proposals for authorities creation, "not 1 has reached a signifier wherever we tin adjacent accidental we person finished zonal oregon nationalist deliberation and past transmitted to authorities houses of assembly, and past brought backmost to the nationalist assembly for deliberations."

The erstwhile Akwa Ibom authorities politician noted that the processes of making amendments to the Nigerian constitution are "very stringent."

Godswill Akpabio-led legislature denies approving instauration of rumoured 12 caller states. Photo credit: Godswill Obot Akpabio
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He concluded:

"So please, the nationalist should beryllium aware, arsenic raised by Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningit, that nary authorities has been created by this August assembly. And each study to that effect successful the societal media is fake."

Akpabio's video can beryllium watched below:

Legit.ng reports that successful Nigeria, senators' halfway duties revolve astir representing their constituents, making laws, and holding the enforcement subdivision accountable. They are portion of the nationalist assembly, a bicameral legislature, and enactment to guarantee the "peace, order, and bully governance" of the federation.

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NASS denies passing measure to make 31 caller states

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the national assembly (NASS) denied the study that it had approved the instauration of 31 caller states successful Nigeria.

Senate spokesperson Yemi Adaramodu clarified that authorities instauration is not solely wrong the Senate’s powerfulness and indispensable acquisition respective law amendment stages.

Adaramodu's remark was a effect to a viral connection connected WhatsApp, which claimed that the legislature had passed the measure to make 31 caller states crossed the country.

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