The senator representing Borno
South, Ali Ndume, has called on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki to
resonate the Senate.
Ndume, while fielding questions
from Channels Television on Thursday, accused the Senate President of shutting
down the National Assembly over personal issues.
The Borno-born lawmaker said he
was shocked at the manner in which he (Saraki) acted and therefore, wants the
Senate to reconvene in order for it to resolve some critical national matters.
The politician said this on
Wednesday in reaction to Senator Saraki’s defection.
He said, “What I want to do
personally is to call on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to reconvene the
Senate because we have critical matters of urgent national importance before
the National Assembly.
“His closure of the National
Assembly that day was unbelievable. I was shocked by the way he acted.
“The Senate is not Saraki, he is
just a member of the Senate. Saraki is just a presiding officer that anybody
can be, so for him to have just shut down the National Assembly because of
personal issues, is very unfortunate and uncalled for especially when you have
very important matters before the Senate,” he added.
According to Ndume, some of the
pending matters include the approval of the FCT budget, budgets for INEC, the
appointment of ICPC members among others.
“We have five different critical
items. We have the budget of the FCT before the Senate which has not been
approved.
“We have the virement and
supplementary budget for INEC which is necessary in order to conduct the 2019
elections and then we have the appointment and the confirmation of ICPC
members, that of FERMA is lying there, that of judicial commission is there and
in fact, the budget of 64 government agencies is before the Senate. Approval
for the funding, external borrowing to fund the 2018 budget which has already
been approved is before the Senate,” he said.
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