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Ministerial Screening: Saraki Has Proved Loyalty To Party – Sani

An APC Senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani, believes that the just concluded screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate cannot be adjudged to be … Continue reading Ministerial Screening: Saraki Has Proved Loyalty To Party – Sani


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SarakiAn APC Senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani, believes that the just concluded screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate cannot be adjudged to be ‘business as usual’.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Senator Sani credited the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki for the new approaches used by the Senate.

While he admitted that some part of the screening process was business as usual, he noted that the Senate engaged the nominees with contemporary questions unlike what obtained in the past.

Speaking on the handling of the different controversies that came up before and during the process, the role of the Senate President and the influence of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sani said that Senator Saraki has been able to show that he is a loyal party member.

“The APC is not a communist party, it is not a party that was founded on ideology, it was a convergence of like minds with a common goal of evicting the PDP and also bringing about a democratic change.

“The crisis that heralded the emergence of the 8th Senate came to define its operation and perception on the side of the public.

“The Senate President in the last few months being one that has been categorised, lampooned, stigmatised and labelled as being disloyal to the party has in the last screening exercise proved to the contrary.

“He was able to galvanise solidarity, at least within the APC caucus in the House, to back the nominees that were sent in by the government and then we can also see how he was able to hold the House together despite the problems we have had in few days over the walkout by the PDP.

“It was very clear that the solidarity, the harmony within the Senators has been able to keep the House together and that could squarely be pointed to his own style of leadership.

“All the predictions of chaos, implosion and apocalypse happening within the Senate has not come to past,” he said.

The Rights Activist also called on Nigerians to exercise patience as the government continues working to fix the country.

While admitting that the Nigerian economy has been facing challenges, he drew attention to the progress made by the new government in its fight against insurgency, noting that what would matter in the long run is sustainable progress and not speed “to nowhere”.