Senate
Leader, Ali Ndume, on Thursday, confirmed his separate recent visits to
President Mohammadu Buhari, and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, but explained that it had
nothing to do with the leadership crisis rocking the Senate. Ndume, who spoke
with some journalists in Abuja, clarified that the senate led by Senator
Bukola Saraki, had put the issue of the leadership tussle behind it and was now
concentrating on supporting the Buhari administration to tackle the various
problems confronting the nation. He also said he had been visiting both Buhari
and Tinubu, on regular basis since the last 12 years because they are his
political mentors. He said, “On my reported visit to Buhari, I am the leader
of the eight senate. My duties are there: One, to lead the legislative business
of the senate; Two, to prepare the schedules of the senate, and three, to liaise
with other committees. “I am supposed to be the presenter of all government
bills to the presidency. So, in fact I am supposed to be in the Villa almost every
day. My going to the Villa is not supposed to be a big deal. “Yes, there are
some issues we had after the inauguration of the senate leadership and all
that, but as you can see we have put all those issues behind us and are moving
forward. “The president has communicated several times to the senate, who did
he address the letter to? He writes not only to the senate president, but he
puts Bukola Saraki. We have moved beyond that. “Of course I go to the Villa
frequently, because we compare notes on bills that are going to come including
on these relationships.” Ndume added that individual senators on their own
were supposed to be going to the Presidential Villa on personal levels and
are supposed to be interacting with the president. He added, “We have been
doing that in the previous leadership and that is what took us there recently
and of course to improve on the relationship between the executive and the
legislature.
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