In a press statement by his media aide, Eseme Eyiboh, titled “The Trials and Triumphs of a Resilient Nigeria’s 10th Senate,” Akpabio insisted that the Senate’s determination to enforce its standing orders is not an attempt to silence dissenting voices but a compulsory act to protect order and the sanctity of democratic institutions.
“Without a doubt, Nigeria’s Senate belongs in that global fellowship of parliaments that recognise chaos as the heart of anarchy and order as the soul of democracy.
Its insistence on upholding internal discipline and protecting the authority of its leadership is, therefore, neither personal nor punitive. It is institutional self-preservation,” he said.