Barau Jibrin, senator
representing Kano north, has asked his colleagues to elect Ahmed Lawan,
majority leader, as next senate president.
In a statement on Thursday, the
senator said Lawan is qualified to preside over the next senate being the most
experienced lawmaker in the red chamber, having spent 20 years in the national
assembly.
Jibrin urged the senators to
follow established international parliamentary practice in electing the leader
of the majority party caucus in the chamber.
With the loss of Senate President
Bukola Saraki at the February 23 election, the 9th senate to be inaugurated in
June would conduct an election for the seat of the senate president.
“The 9th Senate would soon be
inaugurated and a new set of presiding officers will be elected. Most
importantly, the position of the President of the Senate,” Jibrin said.
“I need not take you through the
story of the rancorous way the election was handled in 2015 during the
inauguration of the 8th Senate and the resultant effect but suffice to say that
it is now a golden opportunity for all and sundry to facilitate the election of
the Senate President using the template of the established international
parliamentary practice.
“In parliaments all over the
world, presiding officers of assemblies are elected based on their experiences
as leaders of the caucuses of the various assemblies. Thus, when a party
secures a majority after a general election into an assembly, the leader of the
caucus of such a party in the assembly transforms to be the President or
Speaker of such an assembly in a process devoid of any rancour. The practice is
adopted because of the precept of the more you stay in the assembly, the more
experienced you are.
“Hence,the president of the 9th
Senate should be Sen.Ahmed Lawan from Yobe State as he is the leader of the APC
Caucus in the current 8th Senate.”
Jibrin said another reason why
Lawan must emerge the next senate president is that the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC) got its second highest votes from the north-east, where Lawan
comes from.
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