By Uche Onyeali
Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Sunday Karimi said the current happenings in the Senate involving the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, had vindicated former Governor Yahaya Bello.
Senator Karimi noted that as a key player in the National Assembly, he could comfortably say that the former governor could, afterall, not have been blamed for what Akpoti-Uduaghan blamed him for in the state prior to the National Assembly elections.
Karimi, who spoke to journalists in Lokoja, in reaction to the face-off between Akpoti-Udaughan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio, said “former Governor Bello must have seen it coming.
“Other Kogi lawmakers and I played major roles in ensuring that the state was not brought to ridicule, but no amount of reasoning could prevail. Our intervention was rebuffed.”
He recalled that the Kogi Central senator had several running battles with the former governor before, during and after the National Assembly election, noting that recent happenings had only vindicated the former governor.
According to him, what is happening in the Senate is a total mess and an embarrassment to the entire state.
He lamented that in spite of sincere appeals and advice, which he said fell on deaf ears, it is unfortunate that the needless embarrassment could still be brought to the state and nation at large.
“All our admonition to her fell on deaf ears. One can therefore come to terms with the fact that former Governor Bello saw it coming.
“She has not only rubbished the perception of the state, from the events happening now in Nigeria, she has also embarassed the entire country,” he stated.
