10th Senate: New Senate President must leave above board- Jackson Lekan Ojo advises Akpabio


A security expert and public analyst, Jackson Lekan Ojo has congratulated the newly elected Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, imploring him to be truly independent and vibrant in the manner he discharges his leadership responsibility.

Ojo added that the emergence of Akpabio was ordained by God being the determinant of power and leadership, arguing that the four Senators that contested with him were equally eminently qualified to emerge as the Senate President.

Ojo, in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, opined that except those among his challengers who later chickened out of the race, the rest, especially Senator Yari campaigned with so much vigour and determination.

The security expert, however, reminded Akapabio that he is just the first among the equals, meaning that every other Senator in the red chamber has the constitutional right to be Senate President, adding that he should not see his present position as a vantage advantage to oppress his colleagues.

He explained that going by the composition of the Senate, in which the Senate President emerged by simple majority, Akpabio should be careful not to fall victim of impeachment by those disgruntled senators who were not in support of his emergence and could impeach him through the same simple majority.

Ojo said:" Power belongs to God, he contested very keenly, Yari contested very keenly, Orji Uzor Kalu contested very keenly, the same thing with Osita and Sani Musa from Niger State, except for Orji Uzor Kalu and may be another one that chickened out at the end of the day, Yari tried and the senators of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have the rights to elect their President and they have taken decision and there is nothing anybody can do about it.

"If it goes well with them, it is their decision if it is otherwise, it is their decision , but the only thing I want to say is that is not that Akpabio is not qualified, he has been former Governor and a minority leader in the 8th National Assembly but to me, when he was the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, he offended a lot of people including my humble self and there is no way he could have ameliorate it, then, he is there now as the Senate President, like I said earlier power belongs to God.

"As a Senate President, if I want to advise him I will urge him not to be a rubber-stamp like the 9th Senate, or see that position as vantage opportunity to oppress his colleagues, I am not saying he should be confrontational with the President but he must maintain independence as the head of legislature.

"He must not forget that only about 25 per cent of the senators have the requisite experience and acumen about legislative governance, the rest could be described as green-horns in the chamber, so when you are dealing with people like that you must be careful.

"Now, they have set a precedence, when the president or the party dabbled into the affairs of who becomes the Senate President, it is an aberration of the law, and when that happens, you are building monolithic Government that will bring about autocratic leadership.

"Well, in any case, I congratulate him and wish him well".

Who be this one again? Abeg too early make them rest jawe 😩

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