In a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, the coalition described Friday’s judgment as “deeply troubling” and “a potential threat to the sanctity of parliamentary discipline and democratic integrity.”
The coalition’s national president, Barr Nana Amina Abdullahi, called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the leadership of the Red Chamber to defend the legislature’s autonomy and “not allow populist sentiment or external pressure to override the duty of enforcing accountability within the chamber”.