By Sunny Anderson Osiebe
HallowMace is reporting that barring any
last minute changes, Senators have concluded plans to suspend Ali Ndume
from the upper house over what they described as ‘un-parliamentary’
utterances made by the lawmaker from Borno south.
The online
newspaper reports that plans were made in the camp of the Senate
President Bukola Saraki and another senator, who is seen to be neutral,
has been approached to move a motion on the floor of the Senate to that
effect.
Senators loyal to Saraki are
said to already be reaching out to their colleagues who are yet to join
the train and multiple sources in the know said Ndume’s suspension may
happen any time soon.
Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory committee Senator Dino Melaye is believed to be leading the attack on Ndume.
Ndume reportedly incurred the
wrath of Saraki and his supporters when he protested the rejection of
the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
Ibrahim Magu by the Senate.
HallowMace recalls that Ndume had accused Saraki of erring by accepting a new report not signed by the Director-General of Department of State Services Lawal Daura.
He
also queried Saraki for not reading a similar letter written to the
Senate President by an Assistant Comptroller General of Nigerian Customs
Service (NCS) on behalf of the Col. Hameed Ali despite accepting the
one from the DSS.
Ndume, after the second rejection
of Magu, granted several press interviews where he openly criticized
Saraki and the entire Senate for rejecting Magu.
Meanwhile, Ndume, on Tuesday, March 21, moved a motion on the floor of the house requesting that allegations
of misuse of office and certificate forgery against Saraki and Melaye
respectively should be investigated to ensure that there was no abuse of
legislative privileges by them.
Ndume
moved the motion on order of national importance and the Senate
Committee on Ethics and Privileges is looking into the two allegations
and will report back to the house in two weeks.
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