Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan on Sunday berated Senate President Godswill Akpabio over the allegations of sexual harassment against him.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
Ologbondiyan said Akpabio has been toying with the mistake former Senate Presidents like David Mark, Bukola Saraki and Ahmad Lawan avoided.
The PDP chieftain likened the mistakes to “Banana peels”.
He made the remark against the backdrop of sexual allegations levelled against Akpabio by Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
Posting on X, Ologbondiyan said there should be consequences for Akpabio’s action of introducing the ‘Banana Sleaze’ into the lexicon of the Senate.
Ologbondiyan said: “When Senator David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark emerged as the President of the Senate in June 2007, one of his first assignments was to search for the ‘Banana Peels’ that had removed from office a number of Senate Presidents that preceded him.
“Banana Peels’ was the nebulous hubris that bordered on financial malfeasance which suddenly ended the tenure of a number of presiding officers from the chair.
“But the inimitable Senator Mark smartly pulled back from the issues of money in the Senate and constituted a committee that established financial protocols for the Senate and all senators.
“He (Mark) would later spend eight (8) uninterrupted and noiseless years as the presiding officer of the Senate and the Chairman of the National Assembly.
“Subsequent presiding officers of the Senate, namely Senators Bukola Saraki and Ahmed Lawan, also did terms of four years each and vacated the chair gracefully and peacefully without a fall from the proverbial ‘Banana Peels’.
“Interestingly, the current Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has been toying with the ‘Banana Peels’ in his almost two years in office.
“Now, he has, through the current allegations of sexual harassment, fully introduced the ‘Banana Sleaze’ into the lexicon of the Senate and the consequences are always inevitable.”