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6 Senators Who May Replace Saraki As Senate President by feranmmie(m): 4:43pm On Apr 06, 2016 |
Following the commencement of the the trial of the
Senate president, Senator Bukola Saraki, at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on a 13-count charge bordering
on false declaration of assets, colleagues in the Senate
have begun scheming for a possible replacement.
Some senators including those who had vowed to
remain with him to the end of his trial have asked the
Senate president to consider the resignation so as to
save the Senate, as an institution.
The option was thrown to him at a special meeting held
by a group of some loyal senators.
Senators eyeing Bukola Saraki’s seat Photo credit: Daily
Trust
The senators who are likely to replace Saraki are both
from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), which
has the majority in the Upper Chamber, and the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), which has the second highest
number of senators.
Here are 6 senators are gearing up to replace Saraki as
Senate president of Nigeria should he fail to survive his
trial:
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1. Senator Ike Ekweremadu (PDP, Enugu West)
Senator Ike Ekweremadu is the Deputy Senate president
and is likely to get the nod to replace Saraki
Ekweremadu is definitely favoured by the ranking rules
of the Senate. He has been at the Upper Chamber since
2003 and deputy Senate president since 2007.
It was believed that Saraki rewarded the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) with the deputy Senate president
seat following his alliance with them in June 2015.
The return of the immediate past Senate president,
Senator David Mark (PDP, Benue South) to the Red
Chamber has brightened the chances of the PDP to
clinch the post should it slip off Saraki’s hand.
Mark, aside from being the most ranking senator, was
said to be a key player in the emergence of senate
presidents since 1999. It is on record that he played
immeasurable role in the emergence of Saraki.
2. Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC, Yobe North)
Senator Ahmed Lawan
Lawan has been at the National Assembly since the
return of democracy in the country in 1999. After 8 years
in the lower chambers, Lawan was elected into the
Nigerian Senate in 2007, and he has been a member of
the upper chambers since then. He is the most
experienced senator in the ranks of the AAfter 8 years in
the lower chambers, Lawan was elected into the Nigerian
Senate in 2007, and he has been a member of the upper
chambers since then. He is the most experienced
senator in the ranks of the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
He was the preferred candidate of the APC for the Senate
seat in 2015, but Saraki in alliance with PDP senators
pushed him aside.
Members of the Lawan camp are relying heavily on the
backing and support of the presidency and that of the
leadership of their party, especially the national leader,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
3. Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South)
Senate leader Ali Ndume
Ndume’s name is ringing in the Upper Chamber as a
likely successor for Saraki. The Senate Leader contested
for the deputy Senate president seat, but he was
defeated by Ekweremadu, on the strength of PDP alliance
with Saraki.
The continued re-echoing of Ndume’s name as a
contender for the seat has upset the loyalists of Saraki
who are seeing him as one of their own. Ndume, a
second time senator, stepped up from the House of
Representatives to the Upper Chamber in 2011.
Some say that the Borno-born senator has his eyes set
on the Senate Presidency.
However the chances of either Lawan and Ndume are
being hindered by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who is from Bauchi
state in the North-East, the same geopolitical zone as
the two.
4. Senator Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi (APC, Kwara
North)
Senator Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi
Another APC senator that is eyeing the Senate president
seat is Lafiagi. He is not known to talk much, but each
time he speaks, his words carry weight.
He hails from Kwara state just like Saraki and was said
to be a beneficiary of the Saraki political dynasty in
Kwara.
Senators in another faction in the same Saraki camp are
pushing for Lafiagi, with a view of retaining the position
in Kwara state.
5. Senator Abdullahi Adamu (APC, Nasarawa West)
Senator Abdullahi Adamu
Supporters from Saraki’s camp are reportedly weighing
the option of Senator Adamu as the next Senate
president.
Senator Adamu was a two-term governor of Nasarawa
State, from 1999 to 2007, on the platform of the PDP,
decamped to the APC in 2014 and is the chairman,
Senate Committee on Agriculture.
The former governor is being considered for the job in
order to retain the position in the North-Central
geopolitical zone, where the current Senate president
comes from.
6. Senator Suleiman Adokwe (PDP, Nasarawa South)
Senator Suleiman Adokwe
He was elected Senator for the Nasarawa South
constituency in May 2007. Adokwe was appointed to
committees on Senate Services, Security & Intelligence,
Navy, National Planning,Downstream Petroleum and
Capital Markets.
In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, he
had not sponsored any bills but was stated to be
surprisingly brilliant on the floor.
Adokwe is a supporter of labor unions, which he has
said can offer constructive criticism of government, as
their leaders avoid corruption and support democracy in
the unions. |
Re: 6 Senators Who May Replace Saraki As Senate President by Jibreen4u(m): 4:48pm On Apr 06, 2016 |
Wetin happened to Saraki? |
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