Former Senate President and elder statesman, Senator Ameh Ebute, has called on Bukola Saraki, President of the 8th Senate to immediately resign in order to save the image of the entity called Nigeria.

Ebute, who was President of the Nigerian Senate during the end of the third republic, in a thought-provoking letter addressed to Saraki and obtained by our reporter on Friday, hinged his reason on the fact that Saraki had succeed in turning the Red Chamber into a combat theatre by protecting the abominable and despising truth.

The Benue-born political leader lamented that the Saraki-led senate also imported what he termed despicable autocracy and despotism into parliamentary engagements, hence, the needless brawls between the senate and the executive arm of the governments.

He also cited the recent suspension of Senators Ali Adume and Omo-Agege as some of the few examples Saraki’s aberrational leadership of the Senate and the National Assembly.

Ebute declared, “This is the extent of your moral deficit, which has disqualified you from belonging or even leading an assemblage of honourable men and women.”

He advised the Kwara-born lawmaker to kindly eat the humble pie ad take the exit door, having, “consistently failed to pass the integrity and morality tests to continue to preside over Nigeria’s parliament.”

The letter reads below.


Let me begin by extending my greetings to you and other members of the National Assembly. It is exactly eight years since God crossed our path and must be bold to say that knowing you as a friend has been an interesting journey all the way.

As a senior citizen of Nigeria, I feel I owe the younger generation of Nigerians the moral obligation to offer advice and counsel when public institutions are mismanaged. It is more compelling, especially, whenever I see the ship of state derailing or democratic tenets blatantly abused, as in our experience now with your leadership of the National Assembly. This is why I have decided to write this open epistle to you.

We all know that democratic governance rest on the pillars of the legislature, whose main responsibility is to enact legislations that would deepen democratic practices and good governance in any country of the world. A corrupt legislature is a bane to the country; while an upright, focused and virtuous legislature is an asset to Nigeria. The entire wheels of democratic governance are propelled and energized by the legislature.

Therefore, those who should populate the hallowed chambers ought to be men and women of proven integrity and trustworthy. The demands of morality and integrity on the Parliament, which is the conscience of democratic governance is very strict.

It is no longer in doubt to all discerning minds that your lofty position as the Senate President and Chairman of the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigerian places a serious a moral burden on you, which your actions and utterances in the last three years have exposed you as very deficient.

Nigerians have watched with utter amazement how you have redefined leadership of the legislature in the negative sense. This to me as your friend is very shameful and immoral to say the least but still not too late.

The Senate under your watch has imported despicable autocracy and despotism into parliamentary engagements. And the resultant effects include, the dictatorial muzzling of opposition voices of colleagues during plenary and abusing their inalienable right of freedom to hold and express opinions on the floor of the hallowed chambers.

Your leadership of the Senate has shown an absolute proclivity to vindictiveness and witch-hunting of colleagues who share views opposed to your disposition. Such members are goaded to the Ethics and Disciplinary Committee peopled by your acolytes, who have accepted the loathsome job of serving as your hatchet men. They unduly or unlawfully punish dissenting voices for the audacity of holding an opinion contrary to your thinking.

The suspension of Senators Ali Adume and Omo-Agege are some of the few examples of your aberrational leadership of the Senate and the National Assembly. You have turned the Red Chambers into a combat theatre, protecting the abominable, but despising truth. This is the extent of your moral deficit, which has disqualified you from belonging or even leading an assemblage of honourable men and women.

Mr. Senate President Sir, you have consistently failed to pass the integrity and morality tests to continue to preside over Nigeria’s parliament. Nigerians recall with much sadness, your scandalous alleged purchase of the N298 million bulletproof Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV), with fake documents and the evasion of Customs duties, which was impounded by Nigerian Customs Service (NCS).

There is also the issue of your alleged false declaration of assets, a case still hanging at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), but you are frustrating judgment with frivolous court injunctions. This again testified to the obvious that you still own the Nigerian people an apology.


And your recent alleged shadows in the Offa bank robberies which claimed the lives of over 30 Nigerians, including security agents have cumulatively placed a moral burden on your leadership and disqualify you from holding the noble identity of a Nigerian parliamentarian, much more holding such exalted positions of Senate President and Chairman of the National Assembly.

Sir, in my humble opinion, you are barren of every essential ingredient and honour to continue to preside over any parliament anywhere in the world. The abysmal performance of the Senate under your watch, the padding of national budget or the simmering regime of corruption your leadership has allowed to creep into the Senate strips you of any qualification to be a member of Nigeria’s National Assembly.

Nigerians have tolerated your leadership deficit enough and time has come for you to have a rethink and do the needful.
We are tired of your scandalous outings at every point. It is either, you are fingered in armed robbery today, or some illicit monies are traced to your account abroad, which are matters the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria does not approve of any public office holder.


My friend Senator, I have no hesitation to say, you have regrettably become an opposite of honour or integrity, both at home and abroad and a shame to Nigeria, a country President Muhammadu Buhari is spending sleepless nights to reposition and rejuvenate on the path of progress and public morality. We cannot allow you to reverse these gains.

Though, the mistake was made right from your home state of Kwara, where the people of Kwara Central senatorial district failed to see your odd characters, underserving of leadership patronage and proceeded to entrust you with their mandate. Even this is now questionable having listened to some criminals confess openly how they manipulated your elections to give you victories against the people’s wish .

These negative virtues are innately part of you, and there are no restrictions. You even irresponsibly besmirched and desecrated, the Elder Olusola Saraki, your own father by shamefully humbling a man that brought you into this world and even politics by extension.

Therefore, at the behest of all men of good conscience and lovers of Nigeria, I am advising you to do the needful. Please, withdraw your membership of the National Assembly by resigning your position. And the time to act appropriately is now. It is the collective desire of all Nigerians to see their country progress. We cannot continue to stomach or tolerate a leadership liability like you anymore.

Thank you for the patience of reading this open letter and may you be guided accordingly.

You may permit me to share this with our friends in the diplomatic circle as witnesses to my call for you to do the needful. This is to put everyone on notice should masses decide to emulate your style of doing things by removing you from office in the days ahead.

SOURCE>>>http://www.idomavoice.com/2018/07/resign-to-save-nigerias-image-you-have-failed-former-senate-president-writes-saraki.html

Senate President for 72 hours is talking when others are talking ...This Ameh Ebute should respect himself please ...where has his voice been since the killings have been going on in his state that he has now suddenly woken up to spew nonsense ..Saraki is not resigning and will only resign Buhari who has perfrmed worse resigns

Is that all

Saraki, the best senator Nigeria has seen in recent times.. if not for his turncoat, The executive could have gone full blown military..

lubissh

People dey talk, these ones go still comeOut say that wan talk...
I just weak for this man when I read this...
My friend Senator, I have no hesitation to say, you have regrettably become an opposite of honour or integrity, both at home and abroad and a shame to Nigeria, a country President Muhammadu Buhari is spending sleepless nights to reposition and rejuvenate on the path of progress and public morality. We cannot allow you to reverse these gains.

So Boohary dey spend sleepless night? Lol..

When shall send him back to daura, so he can sleep in peace...

There shall not be peace for all the wicked and desperados of this Nation.

Sarakis dogged spirit is a plus for him.

Mr Ameh face the conquest ravaging ur land.

What a 'dear John'!

It's dripping with bile!!

How Saraki is still the senate president is a mystery, or should I say it's partly due to Buhari's so-called non-interference... . I'm sure that if it were in Jonathan's time, he wouldn't have lasted a year on that seat. So many crimes/infractions to pin him down with, but he seems to be escaping each and every one unscathed.
At the end, it still boils down to the ineffectiveness of our judiciary that even if a looter confesses to have stolen billions of naira, they'll rather tell him to pay N5 million fine than sentence him to life imprisonment which the crime merits. The case of former Edo gov easily comes to mind.

He is a SHAMELESS man. He won't, until he is disgraced.

Dis OP no get sense oo
Too long
U no am a lazy youth

Nonsense talk abi na eye service. Ask Buhari to resign

Who's this? I never heard of this name when Benue people were being massacred.

When shall Benue leaders focus on more important things?

Nonsense talk abi na eye service. Ask Buhari to resign period

Nonsense talk abi na eye service. Ask Buhari to resign period

He won't.... Someone who ought to be behind bars... Forming jet Lee.

Too long. OP

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After what happened in Lagos on the 28th of June .....

In Lokoja today, A gas tanker again carrying 45,000 litres of gas this early morning was on a very high speed along MURTALA MOHAMMED HIGH WAY in ABUJA EXPRESS WAY. when the driver spotted an okada man who was also on high speed coming towards him.

Meanwhile, the Okada man was carrying a close to delivery pregnant woman who was just coming back from the State Hospital.

In a nut shell, as they got closer to each other the tanker driver looked closely and identified the Okada rider to be his childhood friend. He shouted his name Matthew!
They both slowed down, stopped, hugged each other, spoke for a while and continued their journey.

I was just in a car looking at both of them.
They were so happy together

#The end:::

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usebog:
Dis OP no get sense oo
Too long
U no am a lazy youth

Eh yaaaa!

CHAIRMAN OF GARAGE IN THIS COUNTRY WILL NEVER RESIGN TALK LESS OF A WHOLE SENATE PRESIDENT FOR 9JA TO RESIGN, IT CAN'T BE POSSIBLE...

Ebute!

Y all dese old men no go jus dey dia lane wen dem don finish dia turn??....ehhhn??.....jus dey talk talk upandan.......if like dem do tin tin well right from d onset we for nor dey wia we dey now

Personally, I have no word to describe Saraki supporters.

They are the real enemies of the state.

Little wonder they are many among a particular tribe.