Senate
President Bukola Saraki said yesterday that there was no crisis in the
Senate following removal of Ali Ndume as Senate Leader. The All Progressives Congress (APC)
Caucus in the Senate, in a letter to the Senate president on Tuesday,
replaced Ndume with Senator Ahmed Lawan.
Speaking with State House correspondents
after meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari, Saraki said that the
institution was bigger than any senator.
He said: “There is no crisis in the
National Assembly; things like this do happen and as you said, the
institution is bigger than everybody and I am sure that he and everybody
else will always work for the interest of the institution and for the
interest of the country. Everything is calm, solid and fine.”
Reminded about Ndume’s remark that he
knew nothing about it, he said: “I am sure you have not read his
statement today. He has made a different statement today.”
Asked to react to the opinion in some
quarters that Ndume was sacrificed, he laughed and said: “Do I look like
someone that does things like that?”
On the purpose of his visit to the
Villa, Saraki said: “You know getting the government going, getting the
National Assembly moving and as you know there is nothing more important to us now than the budget process and the work we need to do in those areas.”
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