Crisis of confidence in Senate: Jimoh Ibrahim Asks IGP To Arrest, Prosecute Ningi

The crisis of confidence in the Senate deepened on Monday when Senator  Jimoh Ibrahim, asked the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to arrest and  prosecute Senator Abdul Ningi, over allegations of budget padding against President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Ibrahim at a news conference in Abuja threatened to invoke necessary legislative procedure against Ningi if the IGP failed to arrest and prosecute him within seven days.

Ibrahim, a member of the Senate Appropriation Committee, who also chaired the Committee on Inter-parliamentary Affairs, insisted that the presidency was not operating two budgets.

He said Ningi made false allegations and that his outbursts were causing uncomfortable pains to the integrity of the entire members of the National Assembly.

He therefore called on the Inspector General of the Police, Kayode Egbetokun, “to charge Ningi for criminal information and conduct likely to cause breach of peace.

“As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter-parliamentary Affairs, I have series of international conferences to attend this year, and my foreign colleagues will ask me why my country is operating two budgets.”

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