NASS Leadership: What Happened In 2015 Might Repeat Itself, Saraki Warns

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Bukola Saraki, President of the 8th Senate, has said the All Progressive Congress (APC) might lose hold of the incoming 9th National Assembly if care is not taken as what happened in 2015 might play out again.

Mr
Saraki during the formation of the 8th Senate in 2015 emerged Senate
President against the wish of the APC even though he belonged to the
party at the time. He defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
last year.

Lawmakers at the National Assembly are to elect principal officers of the legislative arm of government.

His
emergence was possible due to his alliance with lawmakers of the PDP.
This angered the APC which severally failed in series of plot to oust
the top lawmaker.

Although he lost his bid to return to
the red chamber, Saraki has warned leaders of the ruling party to behave
matured or risk enforcing what played out in 2015 when the 8th Senate
was inaugurated.

His outburst is contained in a statement signed by Yusuph Olaniyonu, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity.

One
of those he warned is the national leader of the All Progressive
Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu, who recently attacked the leadership of the
National Assembly.

“It is now clear that those who took Senators
away from the chambers contrary to the directive contained in the
proclamation signed by President Muhammadu Buhari on June 9, 2015 are
‘mistake personified’, Saraki said.

“It is obvious that if they
repeat that arrogance during the inauguration of the Ninth National
Assembly, they will fail again because Nigeria is greater than them. The
institution of the legislature is bigger than the over-bloated egos of
these power mongers and dirty schemers,” the top lawmaker warned.

Saraki
also blasted Mr Tinubu for attacking the National Assembly under his
leadership. He said the former Lagos governor has formed the habit of
attacking the legislature quarterly.

He restated insinuations in
some quarters that the former governor is strategically planning to
succeed President Muhammadu Buhari when the tenure of the latter
hopefully winds down in 2023.

“Let us repeat again that we know
that a Machiavellian politician like Tinubu will forever agonize over
his erroneous belief that Dr. Saraki frustrated his ambition from
becoming running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari through a
Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015.

“In his usual cavalier manner, he
will stop at nothing to punish Saraki for that. We know that this attack
is not about the interest of the nation or that of President Muhammadu
Buhari. It is about his 2023 ambition and it is obvious in the statement
as he struggled to explain this away,” the lawmaker stated.

While
stating that the achievements of the 8th assembly surpasses that of
previous administration, he said under him, the Senate has achieved a
lot by passing atleast 282 bills surpassing that of the 5th Senate which
passed 129 bills.

He denied allegations of budget padding under
his leadership saying, “despite all the underhanded tactics to undermine
the legislature by outsiders and the public posturing, members have
always worked as a team on critical issues that benefit our nation.”

Meanwhile, the adoption of Ahmed Lawan as the candidate of the APC to succeed Saraki is being threatened by members of his party who are rumored to have chosen to display the same pattern that saw the top lawmaker piloting the affairs of the red chamber.

Source:- Politicstimesng

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