The lawmaker representing Yobe
North in the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, has said that he was reaching out to
all senators-elect irrespective of party affiliation because the Senate was not
for the All Progressives Congress, APC, alone.
Senator Lawan is in the frontline
of emerging as President of the 9th Senate after unsuccessful attempt in 2015.
Lawan stated this when he fielded
questions from Journalists yesterday in Abuja during the orientation Programme
for Senators- Elect and Members of the House of Representatives-elect.
The lawmaker said he was reaching
out to Senators of the APC, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Young
Progressive Party, YPP because the Senate belongs to all and not only his
party, the APC.
He said, “We are reaching to all
our colleagues, regardless of their political persuasions after all we are
supposed to work together.
“It is not just going to be a
Senate for only the APC members. It is a Senate that will consist of the APC,
PDP, and YPP.
“Therefore, we need everybody to
support the genuine and laudable course of making Nigeria better.
“I will ensure that our
administration is able to deliver laudable projects for Nigerians and the best
way to achieve this is for all of us to work together.”
Speaking on Senate President Dr.
Bukola Saraki’s assertion that public negative perception of the National
Assembly is the greatest problem, he added, “Well, you know parliamentarians
all over the world are not very popular people because we are so exposed and we
interact much more frequently with the public more than any arm of government,
but you work hard on your integrity and on your reputation where you think you
are not doing things right and the public particularly tells you that what you
are doing is not right, you need to reflect and look at how you can improve and
do better.
“I believe that as distinguished
senators, honourable members of the House of Representatives, we should conduct
ourselves with dignity and with respect and ensure that we deliver all those
things that are expected of us.”
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