Senate President, David Mark, has cautioned lawmakers against being agents of factional and intra party politics.
The Senate President, who gave the advice in his welcome address to lawmakers who just returned from Christmas and New Year recess, bemoaned the current political tension caused by ‘naked ambition’ of the political class.
He warned lawmakers against making provocative statements that could overheat the polity.
After four weeks holiday, federal lawmakers have resumed for legislative activities, but both chambers are resuming in an atmosphere of political uncertainty and re-alignment, caused by defection from one political party to another.
This is further heightened by a court order which restrains lawmakers from effecting leadership change and maintenance of status quo.
Although, the Senate has not experienced the same event seen in the House of Representatives, whereby lawmakers publicly defected from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the main opposition, All Progressives Congress, APC, the Senate President cautioned lawmakers against engaging in what he called primordial politics.
The lawmakers’ resumption is expected to give a clearer picture of how the politics of defection would eventually play out in the Senate.
