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2019: Saraki Is Threat To Interests In APC – Sen Sani
By Ruth Choji
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Sen. Shehu Sani represents Kaduna Central in the Senate.

In this interview with select reporters, the activist states thatsenate President Bukola Saraki poses a threat to certain interests in 2019, hence his trial at the court. He also said it is not uhuru yet for former governor and ministerial nominee, Rotimi Amaechi. Ruth Choji was there for Leadership Sunday.

Former governor Rotimi Amaechi was eventually screened despite protest from senators from his zone. What happened?

The senate is mandated to confirm nominees from Mr. President and people say, there is no screening in the constitution but confirmation. But names were sent to us to confirm, we confirmed if the name that is sent meet the operation morally requisite of the position he /she is going to occupy. Now the way to go about it is to carry Nigerians along by making it open. If we take a nominee into a room and come out today that we have cleared him, there will be a lot of suspicions.

The nominee is not going to serve the senate or Mr. President alone, he will serve the whole country. We are representatives of the country and Nigerians that we represent deserve to know the content and character of the ministerial nominee, his capacity and ability and what he is made up for them to reach a judgment. So confirmation is about filtering a nominees whether he is fit for the position he will occupy. He is also democratic norm for the opposition to resist or oppose and that was what we have been doing in the last few years.

They also have the right to raise issue and protest the nomination of anyone they have a strong view against. In this case, the PDP decided not to ask any question but that is not the end of the story, screening is one half of the story, confirmation is the other half.

I suspect that they have simply kept their arsenal waiting for the period of confirmation to attack. So by not asking question during screening, it is a common sign that they have resolved and taken a common position to wait for the process of confirmation. So it is not yet uhuru before we cross the river. But as far as the APC senators are concern, we have shown that the nominees of Mr. President are eligible, but that came with a lot of expenses.

Screening or confirmation should have been done on a standard that would effect and appease national interest and also people interest but we are being partisan there. You can see that the APC senators question are not hard and that has negative consequences on the credibility of the confirmation because we are more or less engaging in sweetheart questions with the nominees. And that might not be in the best interest of the nation. I might not prescribe this to future generation of Nigerians. The clear result of this is that, we have sacrificed the questions Nigerian want to ask to protect our party.

And that has implications in the very fact that the cloud will still be hanging on the nominees and credibility of the nominee. To what extend is the senate screening and confirmation relevant to good governance the constitution has provided that we must confirm a nominees and if we don’t do it within 21days, the president can go ahead and confirm him. It is our responsibility to confirm a nominee and we can also refuse to confirm him If we refused to confirm him, the president knows that 109 people have resolved not to confirm the person and it can lead to loss of credibility by most people. So the nominees passed through security screening and now they came to the parliament but the difference with our screening is that, it is done in the open for Nigerians to see. When a nominee comes to us, he is being scrutinized by Nigerians to see what he can deliver, it is for Nigerians to know whether he has the ability, capacity and character to be a minister of the country.

The constitution also states that, in the event that we refused to do that, the president can go ahead to avoid or prevent a situation whereby the nation might be held hostage. It is more or less scoring a credibility point and at the same time tackling what might come later.

The fourth quarter is almost gone and nobody seems to be talking about the 2016 budget, why is the national assembly silent?
That is going to be a priority with the National assembly and the executive. We will certainly take it on. If you look at the crises in the last few months, you will know that we took off on a bumpy ride, but things are getting clearer and very soon, we will talk on that.
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Hmmm

So wetin dem wan do?

Like the provabial 'Iroko' tress, Saraki is possessed of his ambition. Since he has been allowed to grow this far, APC should be prepared to make sacrifes that appease the 'god ambition' in him.

Alright

E go do them like film,after 30 oct dey ar outomatic ministers.pmb is waitin till friday.were watchin

Ever since May 29th....Nigeria is all about bad news!!! Its either Buhari came with Badluck or He is not having any clue on democracy

Ever since May 29th....Nigeria is all about bad news!!! Its either Buhari came with Badluck or He is not having any clue on democracy .