The Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye on Sunday described alleged attempts to reconvene the Senate before the adjourned date as “tale by the moonlight.”

Melaye also said that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Adams Oshiomhole, should be told there was no crown in the National Assembly for anybody to wear.

Indications that the Senate might be reconvened before the October 25thadjourned date are growing by the day.

The “reconvene Senate” proponents call attention to the need to approve the pending Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) budget for the fast approaching 2019 elections.

Those opposed to the idea fear that it might be a ploy to unseat the Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki.

Melaye told reporters in Abuja that “the talk to reconvene the Senate amounts to tale by the moonlight, a serious joke.”

He noted that Senate’s rule 12 is very clear that only presiding officers can reconvene the Senate.

He said, “We adjourned properly to a date and time. In their myopic thinking they forgot the rules.

“The rules and proceedings of the last sitting were also approved. By our rules only the Senate President or the Deputy Senate President can reconvene the Senate outside the adjourned date.


“It is laughable that some people in their myopic and skewed thinking should contemplate that the Senate should be reconvened by just anybody. It will not happen. It is an exercise in futility to impress Mr. President.”

Melaye who is a frontline supporter of the Senate President added that “whatever is illegal will continue and remain illegal.”

He recalled that only a few days ago, the Court of Appeal ruled that the National Assembly has the power to set election sequence contrary to the thinking in some quarters.

On majority in the Senate, he said that the PDP has clear majority in the upper chamber.

Melaye who insisted that “APC senators are merely grandstanding” noted that APC Senators have visited the Presidential Villa four times in one week as if the Senate chamber has been moved to the Villa.”

He said that the issue of which party has majority would be settled on resumption of the Senate when seats would be allocated to members with their names and party attached.

On the call by Oshiomhole that Saraki should return APC’s crown, Melaye said the APC chairman forgot that crowns are wore in towns, villages, communities and kingdoms.

He said that “nobody wears crown at the National Assembly because the seat of the Senate President is not hereditary.”

He added that the seat of Senate President is the seat of the Senate President of Nigeria.

Nigerians, he said, should not forget that the PDP Senators gave the Senate President seat to Saraki and not APC Senators.

“Nigerians should not also forget that Senate President, Abubakar Bukola Saraki, won the seat through democratic means,” he said.

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why are they scared of reconvening the senate self?

Where were the so called apc senators when the house adjourned till October ?

Did they reject it or support it ,if they all agreed for the adjournment why the noise about reconvening. The executive should not interfere with job of the legislative as all their activities are governed by house rules and in this case the rules were clearly followed.

He said that “nobody wears crown at the National Assembly because the seat of the Senate President is not hereditary.”

He was referring to oshiomole here who said saraki ran away with their crown .

Basic123:
why are they scared of reconvening the senate self?

Nobody is scared. Senate is on normal recess. It has been so since 1999

PMB winning we end saraki nd co

Basic123:
why are they scared of reconvening the senate self?

Go to School, Una go Say No.

When School Don Enter Holiday, Only You And Your Foolish Friends Go Fit Go Reopen School Before Holiday End?

Make Una Chill, Oshimhole Thinks Say Abuja Na Benin, Him go Tall by Force.

Tell your lord to contact his one thousand SANs, he's going down soon and he will take you with him

I never liked Saraki, but I just want him to win this "reconvene or not" battle against PMB

Jirate:


Go to School, Una go Say No.

When School Don Enter Holiday, Only You And Your Foolish Friends Go Fit Go Reopen School Before Holiday End?

Make Una Chill, Oshimhole Thinks Say Abuja Na Benin, Him go Tall by Force.

kikiki bros you funny oo. Saraki giving the satanic party and Dem captain sleepless nights

That's like someone is trying to ridicule the moon

The moon has value and integrity


That's why it cost centuries to land two men on it


It is a tale by Daura light and not moonlight

Even here on the internet, some chimpanzees are seriously jubilating online

Cuz they can't just wait to host their brother in Daura come 2019

The jungle the wild animal belongs to

We shall all rejoice and dance in the street naked when Buhari is bundled back to Daura,
it shall be like the death of Abacha, joy filled the land.
The people shall smile again..