The senators have again decided the fate of the Senate president Bukola Saraki on September 29, Tuesday.
Some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been meeting with a few PDP senators to impeach the Senate president.
And not many political monitors doubt that Saraki’s on-going trial at the Saraki, Code of Conduct Tribunal is part of the secret plans designed by his “political enemies’’ to get him out of the office.
The senators in a motion by David Umaru promised their loyalty to Saraki in the face of his trial.
According to Umaru, “the senate remains solidly behind Saraki and other principal officers of the upper chamber”.
The senator said the senate will not bow to forces outside the senate who were trying to use propaganda to rubbish the leadership.
Seconding the motion, Ahmed Sani Yerima (Zamfara) said: “If anybody thinks that he can influence the senate from the outside, he should go and sleep.”
Saraki put the motion to a voice vote to which the “ayes” carried the day.
Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara) was the lone voice shouting a loud “nay”.
Marafa, an ally of Ahmed Lawan, thereafter raised a point of order to quash the vote of the senate on the leadership, but he was ruled out of order.
He went into a rage, shouting and disrupting the sitting. The senate was held in a noisy hostage by Marafa for at least 30 minutes.
Occasionally, he would rise in anger throwing tantrums.
The action by the 83 senators means only a minority of 26 senators have publicly expressed their opposition or indifference to the senate president’s plight.
See the list of senators who passed the vote of confidence on Saraki:
At the inauguration of the Senate on June 6, 57 out of 109 senators were reported to have voted for Saraki.
On July 28, another vote of confidence came via a motion sponsored by Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Imo East) and 80 other senators.
The ministers of President Muhammadu Buhari are one of the key questions of the Senate today.
Source: Naij.com
Some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have been meeting with a few PDP senators to impeach the Senate president.
And not many political monitors doubt that Saraki’s on-going trial at the Saraki, Code of Conduct Tribunal is part of the secret plans designed by his “political enemies’’ to get him out of the office.
The senators in a motion by David Umaru promised their loyalty to Saraki in the face of his trial.
According to Umaru, “the senate remains solidly behind Saraki and other principal officers of the upper chamber”.
The senator said the senate will not bow to forces outside the senate who were trying to use propaganda to rubbish the leadership.
Seconding the motion, Ahmed Sani Yerima (Zamfara) said: “If anybody thinks that he can influence the senate from the outside, he should go and sleep.”
Saraki put the motion to a voice vote to which the “ayes” carried the day.
Kabiru Marafa (Zamfara) was the lone voice shouting a loud “nay”.
Marafa, an ally of Ahmed Lawan, thereafter raised a point of order to quash the vote of the senate on the leadership, but he was ruled out of order.
He went into a rage, shouting and disrupting the sitting. The senate was held in a noisy hostage by Marafa for at least 30 minutes.
Occasionally, he would rise in anger throwing tantrums.
The action by the 83 senators means only a minority of 26 senators have publicly expressed their opposition or indifference to the senate president’s plight.
See the list of senators who passed the vote of confidence on Saraki:
On July 28, another vote of confidence came via a motion sponsored by Senator Samuel Anyanwu (Imo East) and 80 other senators.
The ministers of President Muhammadu Buhari are one of the key questions of the Senate today.
Source: Naij.com
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