Failure To Check Tinubu And Alleged ‘Yorubanisation’ of Nigeria’s Economy  As Reason Senators Are  After Akpabio (www.africanexaminer.com)

While it was gathered that the allegation may have some substance, it has, however, emerged that some rivals of the Senate President may have regrouped using as a reason his apparent failure to check the lopsided appointments by the president in favour of the Yoruba, especially in the financial sector.

The real angst of the group of senators is the suspicion of the incapacity of the Senate President to checkmate what some northern senators are calling the ‘Yorubanisation’ of the country’s financial system and economy.

Reports had last weekend alleged a plot by some senators against Akpabio alleging lopsided distribution of Grade A committees mainly in favour of his supporters and to the discrimination of those who opposed him during the leadership contest.

Among the senators who are alleged to have regrouped with a mission of standing up to Senator Akpabio are some former governors drawn from the North and at least one from the South-South.

“The main issue is our fear that Akpabio cannot check this Yorubanisation of the financial system that is going on now,” a source within the group revealed at the weekend.

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