₦airaland Forum

ABUJA: Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu, has told the All
Progressives Congress, APC, that the National Assembly is not the party’s
secretariat. Senator Ekweremadu made the
comment through his Special Adviser
on Media, Uche Anichukwu. The aide was interviewed during a
RayPower Radio morning programme,
tagged: “Political Platform”, monitored
by DAILY POST Wednesday morning. Reacting to alleged forgery of the
Senate Standing Rule by APC members,
Anichukwu reminded the ruling party
that the seat his principal was
occupying was not meant for any
political party or individual but Nigerians. His words: “Every Senate or House has
its Standing Rule/Order, as every
Standing Rule/Order normally that has
a life span of four years. So, if you go
to the Office of the Clerk to the National
Assembly now, you are likely to find Standing Rules/Orders of 1999, 2003,
2007, 2011 and the current 2015.” “Going by Section 50 (1) of the 1999
Constitution, that Office doesn’t belong
to anybody or party. It belongs to
Nigerians. That is why APC lawmakers
became Speakers in Plateau and
Benue State Assemblies last June even when the APC was in minority. “By the way, are some people trying to
tell Nigerians that if the PDP had won
majority in the National Assembly,
which is an independent arm of
government, and head both
chambers, then the President Buhari Administration would cease to
function? “Just as I said in a statement a few
days ago, we will not be intimidated
and will do everything democratically
possible to protect the independence
of the National Assembly”. Anichukwu insisted that at the time
the said Senate Standing Rule/Order
2015 was made, Ekweremadu had
ceased being the Deputy Senate
President and so could not have
influenced or doctored the document. “From the point of the valedictory
session of the 7th Senate on 4th June,
Senator Ike Ekweremadu,
Distinguished Senator David Mark and
the rest of other members of the 7th
Senate ceased to be senators until the 9th of June, when the 8th Senate was
inaugurated; and as usually done, the
new senators received new Standing
Rule/Order 2015. “The making of that 2015 edition of
the Senate Rule/Order is the business
of the bureaucracy of the National
Assembly. What the 8th Senate can do,
which its predecessors have
sometimes done is to amend as suitable and the process of the
amendment is spelt out in the that document”.
http://dailypost.ng/2015/07/08/national-assembly-not-your-party-secretariat-ekweremadu-tells-apc/

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Tell them...

PDP Always teaching The lying liars!!!..

Case closed! APC should go and sleep.


Can't wait for another episode of July 21st at House of Rep!

Well said Ekweremmadu..

They(APC) shall gather but since their gathering is not for good of the poor nigerian masses but for their own pockets.,they must surely scatter......

bobbiekrantz:
PDP Always teaching The lying liars!!!..

As we have the waiIing waiIers, so do we have the Iying Iiars...

But it was PDP secretariat when they decide to luck the law makers out of the Chamber then?....... Opposition fit PDP so much

When will this government settle down?

PDP while in power stole our money with impunity till 2013 when they felt they can never be poor again they started working gradually. Before we could feel the impact of the work APC came with deception and bokoharam. Then we voted out PDP that started working and went back to spuare one by voting into power APC. Lets relax because it wil take APC members like another 16year before they wil get stinking rich before thinking about me and you.