The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, Thursday, said he will not resign his position despite pressure from some Nigerians over sexual harassment allegations levelled against him by the suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
Akpabio stated this during plenary after the senators debated and approved the tax reform bills.
He insisted that the allegations against him were false and politically motivated.
“I’m not one of those people who, as you say, will step down for false allegations. Then, when eventually it is proven that the allegations were false, they will say, oh, we are unfair to Akpabio. I’m not that bad. So, if you had that in mind, please cancel it,” he said.
He questioned the rationale behind the calls for his resignation and compared his situation to that of black Americans imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
“Who told you I was going to step down? You know, if you watch the current revelations in America, you realise that there are some black people, because of their skins, who went to prison, sometimes 27 years, some 25 years, for false allegations,” he said.
