A non-political
association, Leadership by Example League International (LELI), has asked the
All Progressives Congress (APC) to suspend former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, and Senator Barnabas Gemade, over their opposition tothe election
of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate president.
In a statement by Dr. Batos
Nwadike, Chancellor of the group, congratulating Saraki, LELI said it was
excited and hopeful that with the election of Saraki as Senate president and Senator
Ike Ekweremadu as deputy Senate president, the upper legislative house was
poised to give effective leadership to Nigerians through seamless legislations.
The group asked aggrieved
senators to sheathe their swords and give the leadership of Saraki/Ekweremadu
the desired support.
It called on the APC to
consider the suspension of Tinubu and Gemade in the interest of the nation.
According to the group, the
statement emanating from Tinubu and Gemade to the effect that they “do not
recognise the avowed election held transparently in the hallowed hall of the
red chamber on Tuesday is embarrassing.”
LELI expressed worry over
what it called ‘April fool in June’ allegedly given to the senators of APC
extraction by Tinubu that “President Muhammadu Buhari was coming to address the
Senate when there was a due letter of proclamation of the National Assembly.”
The group said the National
Assembly was for Nigeria and not Lagos State House of Assembly.
It also congratulated Yakubu
Dogara, speaker of the House of Representatives and the Deputy Speaker, Yusuf
Larson, calling on “Nigerians to support a strengthened and virile National
Assembly.”
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