{"id":78612,"date":"2025-11-12T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78612"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:39:44","slug":"bamidele-dismisses-impeachment-rumour-says-senate-united-under-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/12\/bamidele-dismisses-impeachment-rumour-says-senate-united-under-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamidele Dismisses Impeachment Rumour, Says Senate United Under Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has dismissed claims of an alleged plot to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio, describing them as false and divisive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, Bamidele said no senator had discussed or attempted Akpabio\u2019s removal, stressing that the upper chamber remains united and focused on national issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no attempt or discussion to remove the Senate President. We are united and will not be distracted by rumours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His response followed comments by former Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, who told journalists that although some senators once considered unseating Akpabio, the idea was dropped to preserve unity.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu urged colleagues to support President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration through people-oriented legislation, adding that the Senate is \u201cone big family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bamidele reaffirmed that the chamber is stable and committed to addressing issues affecting Nigerians, insisting, \u201cThere is no crisis and no plan to remove anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has dismissed claims of an alleged plot to impeach Senate President Godswill Akpabio, describing them as false and divisive. Speaking during plenary on Wednesday, Bamidele said no senator had discussed or attempted Akpabio\u2019s removal, stressing that the upper chamber remains united and focused on national issues. \u201cThere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78614,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78612\/revisions\/78614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}