Senator Abdullahi Adamu has been removed as the Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum over the mismanagement of N70 million.
The letter of Adamu’s removal was read on the floor of the Senate Wednesday with Senator Aliyu Wamakko announced the new NSF chair.
Commenting on his removal Senator Shehu Sani said it was alleged that some monkeys took the money belonging to the northern senators.
But Adamu denied the allegation and accused his colleagues of pursuing a vendetta agenda because of his opposition to the alteration of the electoral act which changed the sequence of the election.
Meanwhile, the representative of Delta Central Senatorial District, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on Wednesday apologised to the Senate over statements credited to him that the amendment of the Electoral Act was targeted at President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Senate had on Tuesday mandated its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to investigate the statement.
Coming under point of order, Senator Omo-Agege apologised to the Senate based on the statement credited to him.
Omo-Agege and nine senators had alleged that the re-ordering of the election sequence was targeted at Buhari ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The other nine senators are Abdullahi Adamu, Abu Ibrahim, Benjamin Uwajumogu, Ali Wakil, Abdullahi Gumel, Binta Masi, Yahaya Abdullahi, Andrew Uchendu and Umaru Kurfi.
Omo-Agege had said: “When this bill was passed in the House of Representatives, only 36 members were present.
“This cannot stand in a House of 360 members… We are 59 senators who are opposed to Section 25 of the Electoral Act. We cannot stand and allow a law passed against Mr. President to stand.”
Responding, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, asked Omo-Agege to meet with the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions to resolve the matter within one week.
