THE Senator representing Katsina South Senatorial District,
Abu Ibrahim has said that there is no provision for the
suspension of serving senators in the laws guiding the
operation of the upper legislative chamber.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari
Speaking to State House correspondents after the weekly
juma’at service at the State House Mosque, Abuja, Senator
Ibrahim also said that the Buhari Support Group would open
its state chapter offices in Edo, Akwa Ibom and Cross River
states on Monday and launch its buses for campaigns to
kick-start the re-election process.
On the banning of the group in the senate, Senator Ibrahim
said, “We are not banned, but we sat and agreed that an
association must have a limit.”
He also said that the recent crisis in the senate that led to
the invasion of the senate plenary by suspected thugs and
the stealing of the mace, a symbol of authority of the
parliament, appeared to be a blessing in disguise as it has
now afforded members the opportunity to review the
security situation of the entire National Assembly as well as
the reason for the embarrassing action.
Fielding question on the ugly incident in the senate, Senator
Ibrahim said, “I would like to take this opportunity to assure
Nigerians that the National Assembly is still one and
stabilized. Obviously, what has happened calls for concern
to every Nigerian. But at the same time, we have to accept
that in Nigeria and all over the world, politics sometimes
can create a situation of this nature.
“This has actually given us two opportunities, one, to look
at the security of the National Assembly itself. In fact, the
Nigerian National Assembly is the most unsecured I have
seen in my life in everywhere I have gone around the world.
Every National Assembly has good security, you cannot just
go in, you cannot just access officers but the case is
different here.
“If you go to our offices in the National Assembly here, like
in my office yesterday, there were over sixty people waiting
who I did not have appointment with.
So, this has influenced us to sit down and critically
examined the security at the National Assembly itself.
“Secondly, we sat in an executive session as senators and
asked ourselves pertinent questions of what happened and
why.
Abu Ibrahim has said that there is no provision for the
suspension of serving senators in the laws guiding the
operation of the upper legislative chamber.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari
Speaking to State House correspondents after the weekly
juma’at service at the State House Mosque, Abuja, Senator
Ibrahim also said that the Buhari Support Group would open
its state chapter offices in Edo, Akwa Ibom and Cross River
states on Monday and launch its buses for campaigns to
kick-start the re-election process.
On the banning of the group in the senate, Senator Ibrahim
said, “We are not banned, but we sat and agreed that an
association must have a limit.”
He also said that the recent crisis in the senate that led to
the invasion of the senate plenary by suspected thugs and
the stealing of the mace, a symbol of authority of the
parliament, appeared to be a blessing in disguise as it has
now afforded members the opportunity to review the
security situation of the entire National Assembly as well as
the reason for the embarrassing action.
Fielding question on the ugly incident in the senate, Senator
Ibrahim said, “I would like to take this opportunity to assure
Nigerians that the National Assembly is still one and
stabilized. Obviously, what has happened calls for concern
to every Nigerian. But at the same time, we have to accept
that in Nigeria and all over the world, politics sometimes
can create a situation of this nature.
“This has actually given us two opportunities, one, to look
at the security of the National Assembly itself. In fact, the
Nigerian National Assembly is the most unsecured I have
seen in my life in everywhere I have gone around the world.
Every National Assembly has good security, you cannot just
go in, you cannot just access officers but the case is
different here.
“If you go to our offices in the National Assembly here, like
in my office yesterday, there were over sixty people waiting
who I did not have appointment with.
So, this has influenced us to sit down and critically
examined the security at the National Assembly itself.
“Secondly, we sat in an executive session as senators and
asked ourselves pertinent questions of what happened and
why.