10th NASS: Opposition senators vow to resist allege plan to impose principal officers on minority caucus

Some opposition senators in the 10th National Assembly have warned against an alleged plot to foist principal officers on the minority caucus of the red chamber.

The senators who are eight in number in a statement released on Saturday, the lawmakers said they were aware of the plot to foist a “pliant and compromised leadership” on the minority caucus.

The statement was signed by Mohammed Aliero, Seriake Dickson, Aminu Tambuwal, Abdul Ningi, Patrick Abba Moro, Onyebuchi Ezenwa, Sumaila Kawu, and Ifeanyi Ubah.

The eight senators said nobody has been selected or endorsed for the minority leadership in the red chamber.

“We have pledged to work constructively with the new senate leadership and the executive branch to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people,” the statement reads.

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“We consequently hereby advise and caution that they should not aid any group inside or outside the senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the senate institution.

“Senators of the minority parties would meet when the senate reconvenes and in consultation with our respective political parties, would select its leaders without undue interference from anti-democratic forces within or outside the senate.

“For the avoidance of doubt, no senator has yet been endorsed or selected for any minority position as this would await due process as agreed by all minority parties in their last meeting.

“Attempts to foist a one-party dictatorship would be resisted and would fail. We call on all members of the minority political parties to work together in unity to defend the democratic institution of the senate and Nigeria.”

The senate is currently on break and proceedings will resume on July 4.