Senate President, Bukola Saraki Still Making Headlines On Today’s Newspapers

Reactions have continued to trail Tuesday’s controversial election that ushered in Senator Bukola Saraki as the Senate President of Nigeria’s 8th National Assembly.

Event took a new twist on Wednesday, June 10, as the Lawan leaning Unity Forum at a press briefing vowed to seek a judicial review of the process that led to Saraki’s emergence. Several All Progressive Congress lawmakers are still having bad blood about the Senate leadership, like Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who yesterday, publicly snubbed a handshake from the Senate President at the swearing-in of 28 senators who missed the oath-taking on Tuesday.

Hence, the power tussles among the ranks of the APC bigwigs still dominate most of the national dailies for Thursday, June 11, 2015.

According to Vanguard, there is war of words in the Senate following the rumbles from Tuesday’s election of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President continued, yesterday, with opponents and supporters of the nation’s new number three man stalking one another in furtherance of upturning or sustaining the new order.

A development that made the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ekweremadu to move a motion that a letter be sent to President Muhammadu Buhari informing him of the election of presiding officers of the 8th Senate with a view to receiving appropriate communication from him. He said this should be done before the lawmakers proceed on the two-week break. The motion was adopted.

However, the Senate President debunked speculations that he is planning to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, just as his like minds insisted that the election that ushered him in as the president, followed due process.

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The Nation reports that, the Presidency on Wednesday, June 10, said the Clerk of the National Assembly and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, snubbed President Muhammadu Buhari’s request and conducted the election that produced Saraki as Senate President.

Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, said there was a request for the National Assembly to shift the time of the inauguration in other for the meeting with the APC lawmakers to hold.

He said the President refused to meet with the 51 APC Senators at the International Conference Centre because election had already been completed by lawmakers who stayed back at the National Assembly complex.

According to Daily Sun, chieftains of the APC are still in shock twenty-four hours after Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara emerged as Senate President and Speak¬er of House of Representatives respectively, against their wishes.

It was reported that after the initial reaction by Alhaji Lai Mo¬hammed, the party’s national publicity secretary, wherein lawmakers elected on the platform of the party were de¬scribed as treacherous, APC leaders have not come to terms with how the plan to have Senator Lawan elected as Senate President and Hon Gbajabiamila picked as Speaker, House of Representatives, fell like packs of cards.

Punch newspaper hinted that still in reaction to the National Assembly election, 28 APC Senators walk out of Senate session. The lawmakers told a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, June 10, that the election of Saraki did not follow due constitutional procedure and threatened to.

An APC leader, who confided in Punch correspondents, on Wednesday in Abuja, said Saraki and Dogara risked suspension or outright expulsion for disregarding the party’s directive not to stand for the elections. He said the party was considering applying Article 9.1, Sub-Section 2 of its constitution, which deals with the Rules and Obligations of members to the party, against all the lawmakers involved in the election that brought in Saraki as the Senate president.

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The Guardian has it that some members of the inner bar have been reacting to the emergence of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Following the negative reactions that have accompanied the emergence of Senator Saraki as the leader of the eight Senate, well-meaning Nigerians have shared diverse opinion on the issue. Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN), said he has not been able to get a copy of the APC constitution, which he noted he has to lay his hands on before taking informed position on the matter, especially as the party members were quoting their standing rule.

But, Albert Akpomudje (SAN) is of the opinion that the development is good for democracy. He said the APC played into the hand of the PDP, adding that the ruling party should have puts its house in order. The legal practitioner said: “if you look at the process, the president had issued a proclamation for the national assembly to be inaugurated. Everybody supposed to be there. Nobody is going to wait for you because you are from the president’s party.”

Meanwhile, other Nigerians also shared their thoughts on the controversial election that ceded the leadership of the upper chamber of the National Assembly to Senator Bukola Saraki.

 

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