Sen Ndume justifies why Saraki should not be Senate President

The Senator representing Borno South, Sen. Ali Ndume, has said Senate President, Bukola Saraki has lost all rights to remain in the position.

Insisting that there is no justification for Saraki to remain in office, Ndume said with his defection to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saraki cannot be in the minority and preside over the majority.

The Borno Senator, who was removed from his position as Senate Majority Leader, said Saraki should know that he was not supposed to retain the position of President of the Senate, adding that he could not “eat his cake and have it’.

Ndume, who spoke at the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Forum in Abuja on Sunday, said the only thing that could save Saraki from being impeached and remain as President of the Senate, was a vote of confidence from his colleagues.

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“I think that is the only thing he can do may be; he did that before, let him try it; let him call for vote of confidence from us, his colleagues.

“I assure you that he will not get the majority,” Ndume said, adding that he was disappointed in Saraki.

“I am still thinking and hoping that Saraki will do the right thing and the right thing is for him to relinquish that position for the majority to preside,“ he said.

He also commented, that the National Assembly has failed Nigerians because Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, had privatised the legislative arm of government.

“I really want to admit that we have failed in our responsibility to the people somehow, but we the members are not responsible for that.

“It is more of the responsibility of the leadership that shut down the Senate abruptly because of personal issues.

“It is very unfortunate. The Senate is the Nigerian Senate, it is not the senator’s Senate; it is not Saraki’s senate,” he said.

“They have privatised and personalised the institution, and the reason we were elected to be there, had been relegated to the background.

“This is very unfortunate, but I want Nigerians to know that the Senate had not been shut down by the Senators or members of House of Representatives.

“The Senate was shut down by Saraki and Dogara and they should be held responsible for that,” Ndume added.

 

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