Senate Presidency aspirant, Senator Ahmed Lawan, has
defended the N13.5 million monthly salary being paid to each of the 109
senators in the country, saying that the major component of the amount was for
oversight assignment allowances.
Lawan, who has the
endorsement of the Presidency and the national leadership of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to become the President of the 9th Senate, spoke to
journalists in Abuja, yesterday, maintaining that there would be no reduction
of the amount if he becomes the next Senate President.
The lawmaker also
reflected on Friday’s Supreme Court judgment which sacked three APC
senators-elect from Zamfara State, describing it as a setback.
That notwithstanding,
Lawan pointed out that the APC was still in the lead in the Senate with 62
members, having lost three to the PDP, which now boasts of 44 members in the
upper chamber of the NASS.
According to him, there is nothing like jumbo pay for
senators since each of them goes home with about N1 million a month and
allowances for oversight functions, some of them outside the country.
The Yobe representative, who remains the longest-serving
lawmaker from the North in the Senate so far, also described himself as a
‘Buhari man’, who would always support all good policies and programmes
initiated by the administration for the overall good of Nigerians.
Lawan said: “I won’t deny it; I am a Buhari man and
supporter. But that does not mean that I would be a rubber stamp to him or his
policies if I become the Senate President.
My support for him should not be misconstrued to mean that I
would be a rubber stamp to him or his policies.
“But it must also be noted that I don’t belong to the school
of thought of using lawmakers to fight the government. For me, I recognize the
fact that we must work together by agreeing and sometimes disagreeing to make
things work better for all Nigerians”
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ReplyDeleteShameful! Monthly take home 'about 1 million naira?' Born fraudster! Simply to curry election favour from his fellow fraudsters.
ReplyDeleteShameful! Monthly take home 'about 1 million naira?' Born fraudster! Simply to curry election favour from his fellow fraudsters.
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