₦airaland Forum

A SECRET plan to print a new Order Book (Senate Standing Orders 2015) to cover some lapses committed by Senate President Bukola Saraki has been uncovered.

The new rules book may be smuggled into the upper chamber without the approval of the Senate as required by Order 110, The Nation has learnt.

But many senators, across party lines yesterday vowed to resist the plot, which they considered a desecration of the Upper Chamber.

The Senate leadership is believed to have realised that it erred on the constitution of the Standing Committees of the chamber.
Order 97 (1-57) specifies that the Senate should have 57 committees but without consultations and approval from senators, Dr. Saraki allegedly increased the number to 65 – an action considered unilateral and, therefore, undemocratic.

Senators are said to be protesting alleged “school pupil” treatment being given to them by the Senate leadership.
They have accused the leadership of allegedly trying to hide under the approval of Votes and Proceedings of November 4 to assume that the Order Book has been amended as an excuse to print a new Order Book.

Saraki, on November 4, announced the composition of 65 standing committees.
After the announcement, he adjourned the Senate till November 10 principally because he had a date to keep at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) trying him for alleged non-declaration of assets.

At the resumption of plenary on November 10, the Senate adopted the Votes and Proceedings of November 4, which covered the composition of the 65 standing committees.

But the suspicion trailing the composition of committees blew open immediately after the adoption of the Votes and Proceedings of the November 4.
To douse the tension, the plot to print a new Order Book was hatched.

Three senators confirmed the plot.
A high-ranking senator said: “I think Nigerians should be alerted that there is a plan to print a new Order Book to make up for some lapses committed by the President of the Senate. The Senate leadership has realised that it erred in unilaterally increasing the number of Senate Committees from 57 to 65.

“They are plotting to use the Votes and Proceedings of Tuesday November 4 to assume that the Senate has approved the amendment of the Order Book. The amendment must be effected by the Senate and there is no record of such.
“Order 110(1-5) spells out in clear details how the Order Book can be amended. Nigerians should ask when did the 8th Senate decide to amend the Order Book.

Where did the Senate President derive the authority to increase the Senate Committees from 57 to 65?
“If the Senate President wants to increase the number of committees, he has to go back to Order 110 and comply with it.
“We will not accept any backdoor amendment of the Order Book.”
Another senator said: “One of our colleagues has been raising alarm on a move to produce a new Order Book without the approval of the Senate. The plot had been on for a while but they are about to commit the illegal act.

“When we had issues with the forged rules used for the election of the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, said each Senate comes with its own Order Book and it is that Senate that will amend the existing one.

“But without the approval of the Senate, they are going ahead with a new Order Book. Those behind this plot should know that Order 1, like Section 1 of the 1999 Constitution, says all procedures must be in accordance with Order Book.
“Anything done outside Order Book is a nullity.

“A third ranking senator said: “Order 97(1-57) states clearly the list of committees of the Senate just like Section 31of the 1999 Constitution spells out the number of states, FCT and Local Government Areas in the country.

“Nobody has the right to increase or decrease by fiat. By increasing the Senate Committees from 57 to 65, it invalidates the whole process.”

When contacted, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi, said: “I am hearing this information from you. Which Rules Book or Order Book are you talking about? I am completely unaware of what you are saying.

Except The Nation is telling me and giving me an information I’m not aware of, then I will tell the world that
The Nation said and gave me the information. I don’t know anything about any new Order Book please.”

Senator Aliyu Sabi, said: “I am hearing this information from you. Which Rules Book or Order Book are you talking about? I am completely unaware of what you are saying.

Except The Nation is telling me and giving me an information I’m not aware of, then I will tell the world that
The Nation said and gave me the information. I don’t know anything about any new Order Book please.”

Highcuerayte:
On behalf of NETC i say End time Plot

Highcuerayte:
On behalf of NETC i say End time Plot

ijustdey:
http://thenationonlineng.net/revealed-plot-to-rewrite-senate-standing-rules/


Plot to rewrite what.

ijustdey:
http://thenationonlineng.net/revealed-plot-to-rewrite-senate-standing-rules/

Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)

The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

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