Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015

Is it not weird and disturbing that rather than put the interest of the nation uppermost by applying the immense potential of the Nigerian Senate to the hilt, we are at each other’s throat on the inconsequential matter of why DR BUKOLA SARAKI should not be Senate President and why Senator Ike Ekweremadu from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ought not to be his deputy? Just when we thought we had the change we desired after being forced with different shades of the same color for 16 years, some citizens are foisting on us needless distractions about the ineligibility of the Senate President simply because he is said not to be the choice of the party in power, All Progressives Congress (APC).

We should handle this matter with extreme care so it does not get out of hand to topple the noble vision of APC and deny us the much needed skills and experience of SARAKI. If all we do in tackling this issue is to personalise it by putting SARAKI at its center, APC shall be destroying its goodwill and rubbishing its national mandate. To harp on a so-called pursuit of disciplining its erring lawmakers as some of the party hawks are insisting is a lack of understanding of the balance between national interest and party supremacy.

There are stages of policy and diplomacy evolution when party gives way to patriotic instincts. And there are events that dictate that party surrender its stand to the state. No nation in modern times since the advent of party politics allows party sentiments to subdue its corporate essence. Of course this is not to diminish the role of the party to the point of instigating a revolt. No!

But what we must note is that we are unwittingly giving scant attention to the time we are wasting in not addressing the core of the matter. This core is that the legislature is the hub of representative democracy. If you have a robust legislative house, you will have an equally robust executive to administer the country. This would trickle down to engendering a strong social, judicial and economic superstructure. Why? The chamber of the lawmakers is where you brew an enduring canon of good governance that drives society and development.

The president is only symbolic of the spirit of government. The legislative arm is the pilot of the system, wheeled by a conscientious judiciary and an impartial and fearless media. Remove the legislator or neutralize him and the whole system corrupts, collapses, crashes, dies.

And judging from what has taken place, the business of government has been mired in the mud of the unnecessary quarrel over the headship of the National Assembly. President Muhammadu Buhari appears hesitant to present his cabinet to the Senate led by a man over whom his party is split. Yet the wise and popular counsel is that APC should move on and allow SARAKI to work in the interest of the nation which also in the long run is in the interest of the party. For if things go wrong and the APC fails to deliver on account of this selfish partisan bickering, the party would have betrayed the historic mandate the people gave it. That would amount to political irresponsibility of the highest order.

However there is a plus side to the whole affair. SARAKI, the man in the centre, is unfazed by what is going on. He has hit the ground running. As the leader of Nigeria’s 8th Senate, he has set an agenda that accommodates the architecture of change of the governing party. He made this clear during various meetings he held with such critical groups as the Nigeria Bar Association, Policy and Legal Advocacy Center, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room and Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce.

He has also hosted key members of the diplomatic community including envoys of the US, Britain, China and France. According to Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, SARAKI’s Special Adviser on Media, ‘’the envoys…left  fully satisfied that a competent, mature, exposed and intelligent man is handling the new Senate and that there is no cause  for alarm[concerning]…the synergy that will exist between the two critical  arms of government in Nigeria that is destined to change for the better.

If, as someone recently reminded us while commenting on the current impasse at the National Assembly,”classical political science teaches that politics is about mutual co-operation and understanding based on concessions on all sides in the ultimate interest of society,” then the time obviously has come to move on and put the past behind us as SARAKI and the lawmakers have patriotically done in the interest of the nation. This is imperative because when APC was campaigning, its leaders never told us that grabbing power from PDP was about sharing the spoils of war through the prism of narrow individual prejudice.

Make i hear word jare!

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petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
Is it not weird and disturbing that rather than put the interest of the nation uppermost by applying the immense potential of the Nigerian Senate to the hilt, we are at each other’s throat on the inconsequential matter of why DR BUKOLA SARAKI should not be Senate President and why Senator Ike Ekweremadu from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP ought not to be his deputy? Just when we thought we had the change we desired after being forced with different shades of the same color for 16 years, some citizens are foisting on us needless distractions about the ineligibility of the Senate President simply because he is said not to be the choice of the party in power, All Progressives Congress (APC)...

We have suffered and learnt a lot in the last 16 years. The personalities that head our NASS now matter to us as patriotic citizens. We find it consequential that J.J Okocha and other people's money were alleged stolen by the one you want us to accept. Have you also read about Trade Bank allegation?

And more recently your Hero connived with a handful of others to significantly alter, without any legal grounds the, the Senate standing rules. Brazen lawlessness like this is exactly why most of us opted for Buhari-Led-APC 2015. Saraki ascendance to SP is bringing back the bad taste we fought hard to spit off.

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...We should handle this matter with extreme care so it does not get out of hand to topple the noble vision of APC and deny us the much needed skills and experience of SARAKI. If all we do in tackling this issue is to personalise it by putting SARAKI at its center, APC shall be destroying its goodwill and rubbishing its national mandate. To harp on a so-called pursuit of disciplining its erring lawmakers as some of the party hawks are insisting is a lack of understanding of the balance between national interest and party supremacy.

Much needed skills indeed - aptitude in making other people's money disappear? Altering a Standing rules of 109 membered Senate without any legal grounds? Conniving with oppositions to spite his own party? Rejecting all entreaties of his own party to accommodate other interests?

We dont need fraudulent skills no more. We have tried those for 16 years and we earnestly yearn for change - in Buhari we trust.

Less than 100,000 people voted Saraki in Kwara to get to the Senate while 15 Million voted for Buhari to lead us. The mandate Saraki and many others are enjoying is mainly because of Buhari's popularity. In Buhari-Led-Mandate we believe, we wont miss your man.

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...There are stages of policy and diplomacy evolution when party gives way to patriotic instincts. And there are events that dictate that party surrender its stand to the state. No nation in modern times since the advent of party politics allows party sentiments to subdue its corporate essence. Of course this is not to diminish the role of the party to the point of instigating a revolt. No!
But what we must note is that we are unwittingly giving scant attention to the time we are wasting in not addressing the core of the matter.

Unrepentant people with questionable characters and past do not deserve benefits of any 'patriotic instincts'.

The core matter now is that 80% of the population (including my very self) are living below poverty line while Saraki and a 100s of others share Billions on clothing.

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...This core is that the legislature is the hub of representative democracy. If you have a robust legislative house, you will have an equally robust executive to administer the country. This would trickle down to engendering a strong social, judicial and economic superstructure. Why? The chamber of the lawmakers is where you brew an enduring canon of good governance that drives society and development.
The president is only symbolic of the spirit of government. The legislative arm is the pilot of the system, wheeled by a conscientious judiciary and an impartial and fearless media. Remove the legislator or neutralize him and the whole system corrupts, collapses, crashes, dies.
And judging from what has taken place, the business of government has been mired in the mud of the unnecessary quarrel over the headship of the National Assembly. President Muhammadu Buhari appears hesitant to present his cabinet to the Senate led by a man over whom his party is split.

My friend if we decide what is best for us at this time is to do without 469 Nigerians taking home 10-20% of our national budget we wont be the first country to do that. A number of Nations 2015 are cutting cost by pruning down their legislature.

All these big grammars mean nothing to us - the poor : we need food, improved living condition, peace and probity in Government.

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...Yet the wise and popular counsel is that APC should move on and allow SARAKI to work in the interest of the nation which also in the long run is in the interest of the party. For if things go wrong and the APC fails to deliver on account of this selfish partisan bickering, the party would have betrayed the historic mandate the people gave it. That would amount to political irresponsibility of the highest order.
However there is a plus side to the whole affair.

The popular counsel from who? Let me guess OBJ, Atiku, Sanusi and Tambuwa? GEJ moved on with Tambuwa and ended in the dungeon!

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...SARAKI, the man in the centre, is unfazed by what is going on. He has hit the ground running. As the leader of Nigeria’s 8th Senate, he has set an agenda that accommodates the architecture of change of the governing party. He made this clear during various meetings he held with such critical groups as the Nigeria Bar Association, Policy and Legal Advocacy Center, Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room and Oil Producers Trade Section (OPTS) of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce.
He has also hosted key members of the diplomatic community including envoys of the US, Britain, China and France. According to Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, SARAKI’s Special Adviser on Media, ‘’the envoys…left fully satisfied that a competent, mature, exposed and intelligent man is handling the new Senate and that there is no cause for alarm[concerning]…the synergy that will exist between the two critical arms of government in Nigeria that is destined to change for the better...

Blah blah blah. We have been having similar meetings since 1999 while the minimum wage is still N18k and the dollar keeps climbing against naira.

petecoolboy:
Source: Dailyindependent
By Agency Reporter
Friday July 24, 2015
...If, as someone recently reminded us while commenting on the current impasse at the National Assembly,”classical political science teaches that politics is about mutual co-operation and understanding based on concessions on all sides in the ultimate interest of society,” then the time obviously has come to move on and put the past behind us as SARAKI and the lawmakers have patriotically done in the interest of the nation. This is imperative because when APC was campaigning, its leaders never told us that grabbing power from PDP was about sharing the spoils of war through the prism of narrow individual prejudice.

Who connived with oppositions to win the SP contest against his party's will?
Who rejected his party's nominees for the remaining Senate leadership positions?
Who significantly altered the Senate rules to give more Senate committee headship to the oppositions?

Direct your message of concessions to the right person - Saraki.

Ghandi12:


We have suffered and learnt a lot in the last 16 years. The personalities that head our NASS now matter to us as patriotic citizens. We find it consequential that J.J Okocha and other people's money were alleged stolen by the one you want us to accept. Have you also read about Trade Bank allegation?

And more recently your Hero connived with a handful of others to significantly alter, without any legal grounds the, the Senate standing rules. Brazen lawlessness like this is exactly why most of us opted for Buhari-Led-APC 2015. Saraki ascendance to SP is bringing back the bad taste we fought hard to spit off.



Much needed skills indeed - aptitude in making other people's money disappear? Altering a Standing rules of 109 membered Senate without any legal grounds? Conniving with oppositions to spite his own party? Rejecting all entreaties of his own party to accommodate other interests?

We dont need fraudulent skills no more. We have tried those for 16 years and we earnestly yearn for change - in Buhari we trust.

Less than 100,000 people voted Saraki in Kwara to get to the Senate while 15 Million voted for Buhari to lead us. The mandate Saraki and many others are enjoying is mainly because of Buhari's popularity. In Buhari-Led-Mandate we believe, we wont miss your man.



Unrepentant people with questionable characters and past do not deserve benefits of any 'patriotic instincts'.

The core matter now is that 80% of the population (including my very self) are living below poverty line while Saraki and a 100s of others share Billions on clothing.



My friend if we decide what is best for us at this time is to do without 469 Nigerians taking home 10-20% of our national budget we wont be the first country to do that. A number of Nations 2015 are cutting cost by pruning down their legislature.

All these big grammars mean nothing to us - the poor : we need food, improved living condition, peace and probity in Government.



The popular counsel from who? Let me guess OBJ, Atiku, Sanusi and Tambuwa? GEJ moved on with Tambuwa and ended in the dungeon!



Blah blah blah. We have been having similar meetings since 1999 while the minimum wage is still N18k and the dollar keeps climbing against naira.



Who connived with oppositions to win the SP contest against his party's will?
Who rejected his party's nominees for the remaining Senate leadership positions?
Who significantly altered the Senate rules to give more Senate committee headship to the oppositions?

Direct your message of concessions to the right person - Saraki.

bro...nice one..u just dissect this trash....more grease to your elbow...people forget that if we don't corect the wrongs of yesterday ,they will affect us in the future!!!!