Echoes of the political unease
between Senate President Bukola Saraki and national
leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola
Tinubu echoed Tuesday in the Senate.
This time like other occasions, wife of the APC leader,
Sen. Remi Tinubu (APC, Lagos Central), received the cold
shoulders of Senator Saraki.
The mild drama occurred on the floor of the Senate during
the debate of a motion tagged “Nigerians involvement in
illicit global drugs trade and increase in domestic drug
abuse by Nigerian youth” which was sponsored by
Senator Gbenga Ashafa (APC, Lagos East).
Senator Tinubu had made an additional prayer to the
motion and had urged her colleagues to mandate the
federal government to set up drug rehabilitation centres in
every state of the federation.
No lawmaker however seconded her additional prayer.
The Senate president was about to entertain more
contributions from other lawmakers, when Senator Tinubu
interrupted him.
She quipped: “Mr. President, why is my additional prayer
not accommodated? Why is it not being considered Mr.
President?”
Responding, Saraki said no lawmaker seconded the
amendment, hence, he had to move on.
Tinubu remained on her feet when Saraki ignored her and
moved ahead to entertain other contributions. “We have
gone past that. Let us move on,” the senate president
said.
ORDERPAPER.NG reports that this is the third time since
the inauguration of the 8th Senate that a mild drama
would play out between Saraki and Mrs Tinubu.
The first drama occurred on the 9th of June, 2015 during
the inauguration of the Senate, when Senator Tinubu
declined to exchange a handshake with Saraki after his
controversial emergence as Senate President.
Mr. Tinubu and other APC leaders had supported Sen.
Ahmed Lawan as the party’s candidate for the senate
presidency but were trumped by Saraki’s political game
plan.
Saraki and Tinubu have continued on both divides of the
political spectrum ever since in spite of a meeting last
week of top leaders of the ruling party to broker peace .
The second incidence between Senators Saraki and
Tinubu occurred on the 18th of November, 2015, a day
after an alleged attempt was made on the life of the
Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu.
Senator Tinubu was contributing to a motion, when she
left her seat and temporarily occupied Ekweremadu’s
reserved chair. The action elicited negative reactions
from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmakers.
Apparently displeased, Saraki declined to accommodate
her contributions while she was still ‘occupying’ the seat.
Culled from Orderpaper.ng
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