A member of Senators of Like Minds, Senator Hamma Misau, on Tuesday said the crisis in the National Assembly was being orchestrated outside the parliament by some gullible politicians as he advised them to desist from it immediately.
Misau in a statement in Abuja advised those who want to use the National Assembly as a ground for their war of political relevance and control to allow the legislators perform their constitutional duty which he said they owed the electorate.
He added that senators and House of Representatives’ members were not elected for the purpose of fighting for leadership offices but rather to go and pass legislations, motions, engage in debates and oversight functions for the purpose of improving standard of living for the people.
While chiding those he accused of using some senators and representatives to create division and rancour in the National Assembly, he said “they should allow us to move on after the already concluded election of the leaders so that we can face our job. In any election, there must be winners and losers and I don’t know when it becomes compulsory for the losers to be given other positions before we can perform our constitutional duties.
“When I heard my colleague, Kabiru Marafa, threatening fire and brimstone saying that they will bring the roof of the National Assembly down if their men who lost in the elections to select the leadership were not accommodated, I knew he was not the one speaking. He was only a mouth-piece for their sponsors. Why should the National Assembly be grounded because some people failed in election into leadership positions? When then Governor Rabiu Kwakwanso and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar lost in the presidential primaries to then General Muhammadu Buhari, did they insist they must get the vice-presidential slot or other positions? Let us stop all these threats and move on”, he said.
