Politics
Saraki moves to pacify opponents, reshuffles Senate committees
Two prominent members of the Unity Forum, who are against Senate President Bukola Saraki, Kabiru Marafa and Oluremi Tinubu, have received exciting posts as Saraki moves to ensure peace reigns in the Senate.
Marafa, an All Progressives Congress (APC), senator and one of the most vocal critic of the Senate President, is said to have been appointed chairman of the Petroleum (downstream) Committee.
He was previously chairman of the Committee on National Population.
Tinubu, who previously headed the Committee on Women Affairs, is now chairperson of the Committee on Environment.
Another critic of Saraki, Suleiman Hukunyi, will now be in charge of the Committee on National Identity.
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The announcement was reportedly made by the Senate president on Thursday before adjournment of the Senate for its next sitting.
Ripples Nigeria gathered that the Unity Forum members, a faction of APC senators who are allegedly behind the travails of the Senate president along his deputy over allegation of forgery, had demanded that one of the conditions for peace to return in the Senate, was for Saraki to re-compose the Senate Committees.
A member of the Unity Forum, Senator Robert Ajayi Borrofice, prior to the re-composition was widely quoted to have said that the group will continue to fight against the Senate leadership until justice was done.
By Ebere Ndukwu …
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