The National Chairman of APC, Mr. Adams Oshiohmole, has stated they would not repeat the mistakes of 2015 and described Senate President Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakukubu Dogara of House of Representatives as selfish and greedy politicians.
He explained that the meeting with President Buhari was meant to ensure the smooth election of officials of the forthcoming ninth national assembly.
Also speaking to State House Correspondents after the closed-door meeting with the President, the Director-General of Femi Gbajabiamila’s campaign for Speakership, Abdulmumuni Jibril, said the APC leadership officially presented Femi Gbajabiamila to the President as the party’s consensus candidate.
The Senator-elect for Anambra South Senatorial District, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah has, considered experience and knowledge of members should be considered in the selection of Senate leadership and committees.
Ubah, who was elected on the platform of Young Progressives Party (YPP), said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nnewi, Anambra State on Tuesday.
According to him, appointing members based on merit above party affiliation is one of the ways the 9th Senate can perform better than the previous ones.
The senator-elect said he was bringing in so much value to the Senate because of his rich background of practical knowledge of major sectors of the nation’s economy.
He said his lone-senator and minority status would not be a disadvantage to him as he would work with members of the parties in caucus to see how the entire Senate could serve Nigeria better.
Members of the Senate should be given an opportunity to serve in committees that are related to their areas of speciality.
For me, I fit into Oil and Gas, having the biggest platform in the downstream sector; I can serve in Sports with the highest private investment in a sports facility in the country.
I also qualify for media committee I have knowledge of how the industry works with my investments in Authority Newspaper, Authority Radio and Authority Television.
I am about the only senator that has built capacity in almost all sectors of the economy real estate, maritime.
I may also be one of the highest employers of labour. These are backgrounds I am bringing so much value.
Ubah promised to use his closeness with the grassroots to influence legislation that would address the needs of the larger majority of the Nigerian masses especially the people of Anambra South.
He said he would use the opportunity given to him by his constituents to serve him them.
I have been close to the Nigerian project, I understand how it works, more importantly, I am a grassroots politician and I will not sit and watch the needs of my people go unattended to.
I will not rest on my oars, they have given me a great opportunity, I shall use it to work for them.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, today Wednesday, March 20th, signed the Senate’s version of the National Minimum Wage Bill, 2019 (SB 722). The bill which passed the Third Reading stage at the Senate on Tuesday, March 19th, gave the approval for the increase of the minimum wage to N30, 000.
said that he was repeatedly tortured from the day he was arrested on May 15, 2018, in the special anti-robbery squad (sars) office, Ilorin till he was paraded at the police headquarters, Abuja, among other suspects.
“My hands and legs were tied to the back and suspended in between two tables by the iron rod for like one hour 30 minutes. Then the senior police officer, Abba Kyari came around to tell me that I should say that it was the Senate President that gave us guns to rob Offa banks.
The place is called theatre. That’s where five Fulani men were killed in our presence. We were made to lie on the dead bodies on the floor.
I was shot on my two legs. I was later taken to Abba Kyari office, where he asked to know if I was ready to cooperate and I said yes and pleaded not to kill me.
I will “travel”, meaning, I would be killed. That was how I agreed in the presence of the female journalist, who recorded while I was also beaten at interval”, he said.
Hitila Hassan, did not know him before to have known all about his bio-data, his relationship with the state governor, and his political movement contained in his confessional statements.
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has congratulated Mr Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq on his victory in the governorship election in Kwara State.
Senator Saraki took to his twitter account on Sunday, shortly after the results and declaration were made by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to extend his message, while also wishing other victorious candidates all the best.
“I thank all Kwarans, particularly PDP supporters, who worked for the party in the just-concluded elections. My congratulations go to Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq and all those who emerged at all levels. I wish them all the best,” he tweeted.
Senator Saraki who is a former governor of the state lost his re-election bid to the National Assembly under the Peoples Democratic Party.