The Senator representing Edo North, Adams Oshiomhole, has said that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, is suspicious of him.
Oshiomhole made the remarks on the Sunday edition of MIC ON PODCAST, amid growing tensions within the Senate following the controversy generated by his recent comments on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
The former Edo State governor said Akpabio harbours an unfounded bias against him despite his contributions to the ruling All Progressives Congress and President Bola Tinubu’s electoral victory.
He said, “Don’t forget that I was a founding governor of the APC and Deputy DG of Bola Tinubu Campaign Council that gave us victory. I’m not saying I am responsible for the victory, but I worked for it, and I’m happy we got it.
“He (Akpabio) is so paranoid about anything that has to do with me. Everybody in the senate knows that if Senator Akpabio have his way, he will lock me out of the senate because he has misled himself into thinking that I am probably the devil he knows. There are many angels he doesn’t know,” he said.
The senator further predicted that the next Senate leadership arrangement would differ significantly from the current one, citing growing discontent among lawmakers.
“The 11th Senate will not be like the 10th, this I can say. It can’t be. Senators are grumbling about his style of leadership. But we try to manage, and I’ve tried to assure him that ‘Look, Mr Senate President, I am a very fulfilled person.’
“Whatever job I am given to do, I ask God to give me courage and even greater wisdom to do that job to the satisfaction of my constituents. The Senate President’s bias against me is very well known. I will not join in speculating as to the reason for his bias,” he stated.
