Senate acting like a bunch of errant school children in a playground – Buhari’s aide

While President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday set up a committee to proffer solution to the current faceoff between the executive and legislative arms of government, one of his aide apparently fuelling the crisis has described the senators as a bunch of errant school children in a playground.

The aide, Buhari’s personal assistant on social media, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, said she was not afraid of being criticised and will continue to voice her opinion on issues in Nigeria she finds “detrimental to the well-being of all Nigerians”.

She stated this in a post on her Facebook page, further describing the Senate as a “trade union of some sort”

The post read, “So, why is the Nigerian Senate acting like a bunch of errant school children in a playground?

“For not giving me a piece of your snacks, you can’t play with us. Bullying and intimidation! Many of us remember this from our primary school days. It’s back in our Senate!

“At best, the Nigerian Senate has turned itself into a trade union of some sort. Not a patriotic trade union that cares and fights for the well-being of the citizens, but a blackmailing self-serving trade union that works with blackmail!

“But there are many patriotic and people-oriented Senators in that chamber. Where are they? Why are they silent? Why are they succumbing to the bullying antics of a few clowns who are being manipulated by the head cabal? Yes, the cabal!

“What are the patriotic senators doing to let Nigerians know that they are not part of the unholy and demonic alliance of the awaiting trial cabal? How can they sit pretty, and allow those who are either under criminal investigations or are awaiting trials to be the ones deciding the fate of Nigerians?

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“Unless the good elements in the Senate begin to speak up and dissociate themselves from the cabal, Nigerians will think and believe they are all the same.

“President Buhari has the right to choose who should serve Nigerians. It’s within his constitutional rights. Arm twisting and blackmail will not succeed over patriotic considerations. They have forgotten their principal role of law making. Where are the two bills President Buhari sent to the Senate in January of 2016?”, she asked.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Itse Sagay, also on Wednesday questioned why the Senate should summon him.

The Senate had following a statement credited to Sagay describing the institution as being “childish and irresponsible” and a Senate “filled by people of questionable character,” summoned him to appear before it.

However, Sagay was quoted as saying in an interview on Wednesday that the Senate has no power or authority to summon him, adding that he was not in the category of persons they can summon.

 

 

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