Saraki’s Loyalists Will Not Be Among Senate Leadership – Omo-Agege

By Felix Igbekoyi

ASABA – Barrister Ovie
Omo-Agege, Senator Representing Delta Central, has vowed that no one
remotely connected with Senator Bukola Saraki agenda will be allowed
into the leadership of the Senate.

Omo-Agege, who also gave an
insight into how the next leadership of the National Assembly would be
selected, lamented that for almost three of the four years of Buhari’s
first four years, those he termed as Saraki’s relegates regime made sure
all agenda of the government were shot down.

According to him,
this was necessary to avert a repeat of events of the out-going
Assembly, where the agenda of the All Progressive Congress (APC) was
truncated due to the Saraki factor.

Omo-Agege maintained that the
APC leaders were determined to ensure that there was no repeat, and
that the only way to do that was to ensure that President Buhari, as
leader of APC, would consult with the party’s caucus on who should
emerge Senate President.

While saying there was no time he said t
Buhari would handpick the next Senate President and other principal
officers for the Ninth National Assembly, he also said he had not told
anyone that he would run for the Senate Presidency.

“For that
reason, we are saying, it is the party’s caucus that will meet in
consultation with Mr President and decide and recommend for the
leadership position. And Mr President is the head of that caucus. We’ll
no longer allow relegates to govern the National Assembly. When they did
the last time, you saw what happened,” he stressed.

The lawmaker
said though he was as qualified as any other ranking senator to be
Senate President, “I have not told anybody that I am interested in
running for the Senate Presidency. But, having said that, I am just as
qualified as any other ranking senator of the Ninth Senate.

“So,
when the time comes, depending on the decision made by the caucus of the
party – Mr President and other relevant stakeholders – and depending on
where it is zoned to. After the zoning, we consult ourselves and
complied with the rules.”

Source:- Independentng