By Musa Baba Adamu
The Senate has berated Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi for lacking understanding in Parliamentary procedures in spite of being a ranking Senator who was a one time Deputy Senate Leader of the hallowed Chambers.
Senate spokesman and Chairman, Committee on Public Affairs, Ajibola Basiru made the remarks while reacting to a statement credited to Senator Ningi that the 9th Assembly has been too soft on both national issues and President Muhammadu Buhari on some alleged “wrong doings” that he said are “detrimental to good governance”.
Rising in defence of the present Senate led by Ahmad Lawan, Basiru said “it is baffling that Senator Ningi never understood that neither the National Assembly nor the Senate is constituted as an opposition to antagonise other arms of government but as an assemblage of lawmakers elected for good governance and pursuits of national interest”.
He said “the barometer to gauge a working Legislature is not how many times it initiated a furtile and failed impeachment procedure against a sitting President but the amount of work it could do within the framework of Cooperative bi- partisan legislation”.
Although Basiru said that the Senate had at many times turned down requests from the President but “they were done with maturity and understanding without generating so much rancour and public uproar “.
The 9th Assembly represents the ever increasing maturity of Nigeria’s democracy, he added.
Senator Basiru recounted that the 9th Assembly has been the most successful since the return to civil rule in 1999, adding “our focus has been on impactful legislations which border on the economy, security and livelihood of Nigerians.
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