By Okechukwu Jombo
The Senate has debunked claims of crack in the leadership of the upper legislative chamber
Senate Spokesman, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, who made this known in a statement, said “Our attention has been drawn to diverse media reports claiming that President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele clashed during an executive session recently convened to deliberate whether the Senate should proceed on annual recess.”
Continuing he said “the reports do not contain any iota of truth. In entirety, they misconstrue time-tested practices and traditions in the parliament worldwide, where members, regardless of their political leanings, leverage the instruments of parliamentary debates, questions or interpellations to discuss every initiative decisively and eclectically before approval or authorisation.”
He added that the Senate, as our country’s highest law-making institution, is not different in any way. Like other parliaments, every bill, motion and proposal is always subjected to intense scrutiny in our Chamber almost on a daily basis.
This according to him entails robust debates to which members discuss and dissect every initiative before the Senate purely in the interest of over 230 million Nigerians.
In his words “Whether in the chamber or committee room, debates on policy issues should not be misconstrued as altercations among members, neither do they suggest any crack in the rank of the leadership.”
