Miffed by the comment made by the former
interim national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi
Akande on the status of the 2016 budget,
the Senate on Saturday fired back fired back
at him, saying he was expressing his
frustration for not being able to impose his
lackeys on it as leaders.
Akande had described the claim that the
2016 budget was missing from the upper
legislative chamber as an indication of the
indiscipline that produced the leadership of
the Senate.
But in a statement by its spokesman,
Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate
urged Akande to check his records properly
so that he could see that “at no time did the
Senate say the 2016 budget was missing”.
According to Abdullahi, it was regrettable
that a man of Akande’s status “would be
responding to mere speculation without
cross-checking his facts or worse still eager
to latch on to any opportunity to bring to
disrepute the leadership of the Senate
because he failed to get his choice
candidates elected”.
This, he said, was despite the fact that the
legislative house had insisted in several
official statements and press interviews by
its principal officers that the budget was not
missing but that two different versions are
now available.
The statement made available to
LEADERSHIP noted: “We have said it several
times that the budget was not missing. That
two versions of the details of the budget
exist and this is no longer in doubt as the
Presidency has equally admitted this.
“We expect a man of Akande’s calibre to
cross-check his facts and take us up on our
words. That he decided to ignore the facts
and make comments on speculations is
regrettable. He is a man who had served in
government. He is a leader of the party with
the majority in the Senate and he has
several channels of cross-checking facts as
against speculations”.
The senate spokesperson said contrary to
Akande’s description of what happened as
indiscipline on the part of the leadership, the
position of the present Senate leadership
was a demonstration of the regime of
openness, transparency and accountability
that reigned in the current upper legislative
chamber.
In the past, he said, such a development
would have been swept under the carpet.
He added that the statements by Akande
was another expression of the frustration
that the former Governor of Osun State
suffers for not being able to impose his
lackeys on the Senate as leaders.
His words: “Chief Akande is still sulking
after his group’s failed attempt to impose
certain individuals as the leaders of the
Senate last year. So, he was in a hurry to
condemn the leadership. We want him to
know that the leadership of the Senate can
only emerge through the provisions of the
constitution and the standing rules of the
institution. As a democrat, Akande should
know that once the majority has elected the
leadership, all parties to the contest ought to
accept the decision.
“To continue belly-aching and working to
undermine the institution because of the
failure to get one’s choice candidates
elected cast doubts on his democratic
credentials. It appears he is only a democrat
when he has his way. We advise him to
move on and let us help the legislative
institution to focus on its agenda to serve
the people in line with the much needed
change that President Muhammadu Buhari
promised the nation”.




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Akande oooo. Becareful o, senate don warn u.

fools everywhere

we know them by their name, people from that tribe are sophisticated imbeciles

isn't this just wonderful.

our senators are very hard working. they are so busy responding to individual citizens.

keep it up. now I know why so much work gets done in that harrowing chambers and why we pay them so much.

Orjioorji:
we know them by their name, people from that tribe are sophisticated imbeciles

smh.

Orjioorji:
we know them by their name, people from that tribe are sophisticated imbeciles

i can smell your steupidity

h

This one's (bisi Akande, etc) have been sent into political oblivion by the fulani lord. Just looking for ways to be heard.

The senators are thieves.
If a bank SGBN could dissappear under saraki with depositors money what is a paper.?
Kwara State money also disappeared under saraki.
Didn't Ndume the boko haram sponsor saraki made the senate leader said the document was missing.

Hmm, the Senate saying the budget was is missing.

Orjioorji:
we know them by their name, people from that tribe are sophisticated imbeciles

Who is more imbecilic than Ojukwu he bequeathed most of his property to a lady an Hausa woman bore for him.
The only thing his ibo first son inherited from him was the poorly shaped bald head.