.......vow to stop his confirmation as a minister

The battle is not yet over for former Rivers State governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi as the Senators from the People’s Democratic Party are prepared to put up a stiff fight and stop his final confirmation as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It will be recalled that Amaechi was screened last Thursday amidst uproar from the senators.

However, the PDP senators are feeling betrayed by the actions of the APC senators with whom they had a secret agreement not to screen Amaechi.

The ethics committee of the Senate headed by a PDP senator was said to have advised that Amaechi screening be left till the end of the cases of alleged corruption he has in court.

One PDP senator, who asked not to be named, said, “We had opened Thursday’s sitting with a closed session, which lasted for 50 minutes to sort out knotty issues relating to the screening of Amaechi.

“During the closed session, Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, briefed us on the report and indicated that the committee reported that the issue regarding Amaechi’s petition was in court and that the Senate should suspend action on his screening, pending the resolution of the court issues.”
Another senator, who said a similar thing, said the PDP senators were surprised when the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the other APC senators started asking Amaechi questions.

The two and others alleged that all the senators at the closed session had agreed that the PDP senators would insist on not having anything to do with Amaechi, while their APC colleagues also agreed that they would only ask the nominee to only “take a bow and go.”

They said they were surprised seeing Saraki and other APC members asking Amaechi questions.


At the screening, which lasted for about 55 minutes, the PDP senators did not ask the nominee any question with the Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, saying his members would not participate in the screening of Amaechi until the outcome of his court case.

Akpabio also raised a point of order that no controversial matter be brought before the Senate.

He said, “My point of order is under Order 43. The PDP senators seated here will not have any question for the nominee because we have just received the report of the ethics committee bordering on corruption and all sorts of things from the Senator Anyanwu committee and we have not debated that report at all. So, we have little or nothing to ask the nominee.”

Akpabio then asked his PDP colleagues whether he had spoken their minds and the opposition senators responded in the affirmative.

Amaechi had arrived on the premises of the National Assembly around 10.30am, dressed in Rivers attire. His name was Number One on the order paper
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During his screening, Amaechi explained details of his achievements as Rivers State governor for eight years and pledged to improve on the relationship between the executive and the legislature.

In a reply to Akpabio’s earlier order, the Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, had raised a point of order under Order 53 (9).

Ndume said, “My position and by the grace of God, as a Senate Leader, I want to guide the Senate properly. The committee report has been laid by the committee that we assigned to do the job of ethics and privileges and the procedure is that after laying the report, we will make copies of that report........

However, the PDP senators are feeling betrayed by the actions of the APC senators with whom they had a secret agreement not to screen Amaechi.

They said they were surprised seeing Saraki and other APC members asking Amaechi questions.

firsttymum:
These pdp people the hate is real... Na wa o

modath:

Don't mind them & their followers!!

Jona met USD at 127 & left it at 220+ & they are bitter Nigerians sent them packing..

All we hear is slave,sycophant, secession, with none of them able to effectively articulate the good thing he did for the everyday Nigerian...

Last last, they will claim he conceeded defeat, he for nor comot for the gbagbo treatment!!

So you sneak to politics, ayaf "cash" you, will call you from now on... ,