TWELVE days after the Senate cleared Chief Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla, Cross River, South South, as a non-Executive Commissioner on the governing board of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, it has made a dramatic turn by dropping his name from the list of successful nominees sent to President Muhammadu Buhari.

Obono-Obla’s name was removed in the letter transmitted to Buhari as one of those confirmed by the legislature.

In the letter dated November 22, signed by Senate President Bukola Saraki, a copy of which was obtained yesterday, Obono-Obla was listed as one of the three whose nominations were rejected by the Senate.
It would be recalled that Oboni-Obla was among the five whose nominations by President Buhari were approved by the Senate on November 17, 2016, while two of the nominees were dropped.

At the plenary, those whose appointments were confirmed were Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye (Chairman/Ogun/South-West), Senator Ifeanyi Ararume(Non- Executive Commissioner/Imo/South East), Sunday Dare (Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management/Oyo/South-West), Okoi Ofem; Obono-Obla (Non-Executive Commissioner/Cross River/South-South) and Clement Omeiza Baiye (Non-Executive Commissioner/Kogi/North-Central).
The lawmakers, however, dropped Aliyu Abubakar (Non-Executive Commissioner/Bauchi/North-East) and Pastor Ezekiel Yissa (Non-Executive Commissioner/Kwara/North-Central).
According to the report of Senator Gilbert Nnaji led Committee on Communications, Pastor Ezekiel was rejected because of his background as a nursing officer.
The second nominee rejected by the Senate, Alitu Abubakar, had repeatedly called for the scrapping of the Senate, even when he appeared before the Senate for screening, saying the existence of the Senate was not justifiable.
He also pointed out that the upper chamber was only wasting the nation’s resources by its existence.
Obono-Obla, who is the Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution, attached to the Ministry of Justice, protested in an email sent yesterday against what he described as back-door removal.
The mail was titled, Can the Senate President unilaterally overrule the confirmation of a nominee by the Senate?
The nominee, who asked why he was removed after the Senate had confirmed his nomination, simply said: “The entire major electronic and print media organs in the country, on November 17 and 18, 2016, carried the confirmation by the Senate of the Board of Nigerian Communications Commission.
“Surprisingly and curiously, the Senate President, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, in a letter dated November 22, 2016, to President Muhammadu Buhari, titled ‘Confirmation of Appointments,’ falsely stated that the Senate did not confirm the following nominees: Aliyu Saidu Abubakar; Pastor Ezekiel Yissa and Chief Okoi Ofem Obono-Obla.”

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www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/senate-makes-u-turn-drops-already-cleared-buharis-nominee/

This is why Fela sang Double Wahala For Deadi Body..

One can see that the senate should be scrapped. ... an irredeemable bunch of crimetads

Confused people

Saraki must go!!!

blackpanda:
Saraki must go!!!

what are you waiting for, go pursue am nah

Fear catch them

The senate is more used to "Ghana must go" bags.
Am impressed by the Abubakar who despite the risk of not being confirmed insisted that the senate was not useful to their face. Epic

blackpanda:
Saraki must go!!!

bubu won't like this! ; D

saraki has been firing shots at bubu since Nov 1

BeeBeeOoh:
what are you waiting for, go pursue am nah

I know u will always be the one to support corruption. U wake up this early morning to start championing evil as usual. Mtscheeww

It serves the idiott right!

blackpanda:


I know u will always be the one to support corruption. U wake up this early morning to start championing evil as usual. Mtscheeww

Make dem lobby well

That's very bad of the SP. He can't unilaterally upturn the decision of the senate as a whole.

Why?

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Enemies from the village

Choi, after family and friends don do thanksgiving, Pastor sef dey expect better tithes from next month etc.

I sha hope e never collect advance loan or pledge for MMM

This country can frustrate somebody.

He no gree settle..

EastGold:
Confused people

Pastor Ezekiel rejected because of his background as a nursing officer?? Why?? Even though he was a former speaker of Kwara state House of Assembly.

Na wa

Nurses don suffer for this we country. What sort of professional victimisation is that when there are lots of agric and local language graduates leading the packs in our government.

confused APC

yjgm:
That's very bad of the SP. He can't unilaterally upturn the decision of the senate as a whole.

There is always a precedence for these kind of things. When Saraki and co, unilaterally forced the former clerk to make adjustments to the senate standing rule, and reasonable and deep-thinking people were calling for their heads, a lot of mofos made it a Tinubu affair, claiming it is because Tinubu's preferred candidate was outsmarted that was why everybody was following his cue. Imagine, some people just came together to modify a rule that is supposed to be jointly modified by the senate. Well, that illegality was left to stand, and has surely become a precedence for other coming illegalities.

Now the man is getting used to such impunity of arrogating to himself the powers of the Senate. He is just a presiding officer, I guess he sees himself differently. He sees himself as the senate.

I think it is time we follow the US pattern of senate where there is no "substantive Senate President" that daily directs the affairs of the senate. Though their VP is the senate president, he is an absentee senate president, who comes only once in a while. In his stead, there is a Senate President pro tempore who also do not daily preside over sittings.

They are so matured that they even use new comers to preside over daily sittings. This has the effect of making the resolution and collective decision of the senate more powerful and undiluted by individuals under whatever guise.

seen

ifyalways:
Enemies from the village

Choi, after family and friends don do thanksgiving, Pastor sef dey expect better tithes from next month etc.

I sha hope e never collect advance loan or pledge for MMM

This country can frustrate somebody.

Every thing na devil sha i no blame u

Ok