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Saraki’s Swearing
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Bukola Saraki has been returned unopposed as the
new senate president. The former governor of Kwara state was nominated by Sani
Yerima, former governor of Zamfara state. Dino Melaye, from Kogi state,
seconded his nomination.
As Abubakar Sani, the clerk of the national assembly,
called for more nominations and there was none, he declared Bukola the duly
elected president of the senate. Ahmad Lawan, the preferred candidate of the APC,
was not nominated. Out of 108 senators-elect, 57 were present while 51 were
absent. Only 55 senators are needed to choose a senate president. Some APC
senators were reportedly absent owing to their meeting with President Muhammadu
Buhari at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja. The meeting was
said to be going at the same time as the inauguration, hence their failure to nominate
Lawan.
It
would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari summoned an emergency meeting
of all APC senators and reps for Tuesday morning following the endorsement of
Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) –
although APC had preferred Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila for the
nation’s No. 3 and No. 4 positions.
Security has been tightened
around the national assembly complex ahead of the inauguration and several
staff found themselves locked early this morning.
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