KingstonDome:
Former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke yesterday voiced out his opinion on why the Nigerian Senate is never peaceful via his Twitter handle.

According to him, it is not until former Governors stop making the Senate a retirement home that it will find peace.

https://www.kingstondome.com/2018/08/senate-never-peaceful-according-donald-duke.html

VERY MUCH ON POINT, BUT YOU CANNOT STOP THEM

God will not forgive Obasanjo of depriving this man to be the President or even Vice President of this Country

True tho'




Wonderland the senate is.

spot on.

frowland:
True word. ..and the fact that more is coming 2019 makes the situation look scary.

Let someone change the law then and prevent past governors from serving in the Senate. Simple!

Yes i soo much agree with A Governor that have spend eigth years as Governor in Akwa Ibom eight years As a Senator making Sixteen years only one person haaaaaaaaa bros what do him still want.
all Senetor that has ever serve as a governor must not be allow to again contest for senator.

Former governors are the one making things hard in that National Assembly. e.g Saraki.

Duke, okwu gi kwu oto ka Amu

NextGovernor:
That place is full of thieves and rogueds. The funny thing is they fight for there pocket and surviver not for Nigerians and the masses.

Gbam, and they all deserved to be flogged with koboko laden with chilly pepper, arrested, and dumped in the sea to be eaten by sharks, the National Assembly should be scrapped and replaced with tomatoes and pepper sellers, I believe pepper and tomatoes sellers will do a better job than the useless criminal politicians in the national assembly currently raping the country, where is my cane to flog all these useless thieves out of power

goodconscience:


Let someone change the law then and prevent past governors from serving in the Senate. Simple!

Hahaha, who will change it? The same senate that have the Governors will change it? Its the voters that should be held responsible for voting them in.

Not far from the truth. Presidency included let the not too old rule.

bedspread:
His Excellency Donald Duke is very Correct on This

yes very correct, I don't know what they are going back to Do there again, imagine you will see formal gov who has been in senate before still want to come back again

true talk

dukie25:
True but....
Senate is not peaceful because Tinubu didn't succeed in producing its president.
Not allowing the executive to pad budgets is also why they're doing everything to scuttle the peace in the senate.

you spot on. Nobody understands this but it seems you do. Anywhere Tinubu is associated with, he likes being in control and having the final say and where such doesnt happen, how can there be peace?

its the blatant truth.

The Southwest governors have not embrace this ugly trend

dukie25:
True but....
Senate is not peaceful because Tinubu didn't succeed in producing its president.
Not allowing the executive to pad budgets is also why they're doing everything to scuttle the peace in the senate.

Igbos with their lopsided reasoning .

So the lack of peace in the Mass started in 2015?

Nigerians should thank God for the disunity in Apc, if not we would not have heard anything about paddling of budget . Because its something that's been going on since

dukie25:
True but....
Senate is not peaceful because Tinubu didn't succeed in producing its president.
Not allowing the executive to pad budgets is also why they're doing everything to scuttle the peace in the senate.

many are mad but few are roaming

very true, most of them after serving for 8yrs, that's greed,

dukie25:


He was fighting for democracy.

You are a clown.

A democratic fight that was to be won by deliberately disenfranchising his own opponent and Senate peers who also had a right to vote and be voted for?

Very true........
say the truth and let the Devil be put to shame and let the righteous be set free.

God bless you

Throwback:



What was Saraki doing hiding overnight inside the National Assembly parking lot?

Was Saraki as an APC Senator not supposed to be with his fellow APC legislators meeting with the President and party Chairman?

How many Senators out of 108 were present when the voting for the Senate presidency was commenced by Saraki and his gang?

How many APC Senators who were the majority, were present to vote in their very first duty as elected Senators?

Did Saraki not sacrifice the Deputy Senate Presidency to PDP in a bid to actualize his own personal ambitions that were superior to the ambitions of the party?

Did Sen. Lawan who was the APC favourite not have his own supporters too in the opposition parties, but who were now forced to vote for only Saraki, who ensured he began the election of the Senate leadership while Sen. Lawan was at a different place that Saraki also ought to have been?

Did you and Saraki then expect to have a peaceful Senate after such unfathomable treachery and deliberate disenfranchisement of his major opponent and fellow APC senators?

Dogora who won as speaker did not deny any member of the HOR their voting rights even if he was not the party favourite. His tenure remains at peace with all HOR legislators. He did not hide overnight in the parking lot to ensure he was the only candidate with supporters present, nor did he sacrifice the position of Deputy Speaker to the opposition PDP. He only chose to contest fairly and won despite the APC already having an anointed candidate.

Compare Saraki's greed and deviousness to Dogora's right to participation, then see why the Senate is rancorous and HOR is united.

Yea, you are right Duke

The entire politics in Nigeria wouldn't know peace until the demise/retirement of those who are in power since 1960s,70s,80s and 90s

absolutely true, u hit it dude.

Donald Duke is wrong on this because the constitution is very clear.
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Throwback:



What was Saraki doing hiding overnight inside the National Assembly parking lot?

Was Saraki as an APC Senator not supposed to be with his fellow APC legislators meeting with the President and party Chairman?

How many Senators out of 108 were present when the voting for the Senate presidency was commenced by Saraki and his gang?

How many APC Senators who were the majority, were present to vote in their very first duty as elected Senators?

Did Saraki not sacrifice the Deputy Senate Presidency to PDP in a bid to actualize his own personal ambitions that were superior to the ambitions of the party?

Did Sen. Lawan who was the APC favourite not have his own supporters too in the opposition parties, but who were now forced to vote for only Saraki, who ensured he began the election of the Senate leadership while Sen. Lawan was at a different place that Saraki also ought to have been?

Did you and Saraki then expect to have a peaceful Senate after such unfathomable treachery and deliberate disenfranchisement of his major opponent and fellow APC senators?

Dogora who won as speaker did not deny any member of the HOR their voting rights even if he was not the party favourite. His tenure remains at peace with all HOR legislators. He did not hide overnight in the parking lot to ensure he was the only candidate with supporters present, nor did he sacrifice the position of Deputy Speaker to the opposition PDP. He only chose to contest fairly and won despite the APC already having an anointed candidate.

Compare Saraki's greed and deviousness to Dogora's right to participation, then see why the Senate is rancorous and HOR is united.

Do you know what they agreed on before he joined APC? You are just blabbing... This is a case of agreement before joining APC and APC wanted to default on the agreement and Saraki had to play a fast one on their ass...

AGAIN, React to what Duke said.... you should be pondering on that and not the past.

dukie25:


Fighting for democracy.

I salute your stupidity

Pls Buhari supporter I have a question;

Buhari overthrew a democratically elected government.

Delivered Retroactive death sentences to some drug pushers

Delivered Retroactive jail sentences to some journalists

Threw Ekwueme in jail but left Shagari at home on house arrest.

Committed so many other divisive and morally repugnant acts that I don't care to continue listing.

So my question goes thus;

Do you actually expect same Gen Buhari to have peace?

Pls answer my question?

Thank You

Throwback:



What was Saraki doing hiding overnight inside the National Assembly parking lot?

Was Saraki as an APC Senator not supposed to be with his fellow APC legislators meeting with the President and party Chairman?

How many Senators out of 108 were present when the voting for the Senate presidency was commenced by Saraki and his gang?

How many APC Senators who were the majority, were present to vote in their very first duty as elected Senators?

Did Saraki not sacrifice the Deputy Senate Presidency to PDP in a bid to actualize his own personal ambitions that were superior to the ambitions of the party?

Did Sen. Lawan who was the APC favourite not have his own supporters too in the opposition parties, but who were now forced to vote for only Saraki, who ensured he began the election of the Senate leadership while Sen. Lawan was at a different place that Saraki also ought to have been?

Did you and Saraki then expect to have a peaceful Senate after such unfathomable treachery and deliberate disenfranchisement of his major opponent and fellow APC senators?

Dogora who won as speaker did not deny any member of the HOR their voting rights even if he was not the party favourite. His tenure remains at peace with all HOR legislators. He did not hide overnight in the parking lot to ensure he was the only candidate with supporters present, nor did he sacrifice the position of Deputy Speaker to the opposition PDP. He only chose to contest fairly and won despite the APC already having an anointed candidate.

Compare Saraki's greed and deviousness to Dogora's right to participation, then see why the Senate is rancorous and HOR is united.

The Legislature of any democracy in any country is always hyper active. It represents the trading floor of democracy so Donald should take note. It is for this reason we jettisoned the parliamentary system of government which is a hybrid of the executive and legislature as being too disruptive.

I have always said it that an active Legislature is critical to the founding of democracy. I am not for a dull, tepid rubber stamp to the Executive or to the people they represent.

I consider the roke of the Executive as that of raising the polity ans that of the Legislature as broadening of the polity ans anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of statics knows that it is dangerous to advance upwards without a commensurate widening of the base of any structure and any structural engineer will tell you this simole truth..... Broaden the base first before anything else.