Kawu Sumaila: "Let the council remove the leadership, not by force." Nigerians are still calling for the procedure to be followed ...
Kawu Sumaila: "Let the council remove the leadership, not by force."
Nigerians are still calling for the procedure to be followed in the ousting of its leaders two months after the 10th Federal Assembly's commencement.
Many of the senators she represents in parliament have stated that they would like to have the chance to hold the third and fourth-highest positions in the nation.
The majority-holding APC party, which is in power, stated that they disagreed, despite having control of both houses of the Federal Assembly. She stated that they ought to give the party and the newly elected president the chance to divide the seats throughout Nigeria's zones.
However, a growing number of people are advocating for democracy to function properly when choosing the 10th parliament's leadership rather than giving a party's interests priority.
Onarabul Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, an elected senator from the opposition NNPP, was one of those who phoned.
Members of Parliament, not the President or his party, represent the country's citizens, according to the member of parliament for Kano South Constituency.
He said that they ought to be left with nothing but a knife and some meat in order to select the president they desire.
According to Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, the 10th parliament will do more to advance democracy in the nation than any past parliament because no party with a significant majority can pass laws on its own without assistance from the opposition.
the legislative branch's leadership
He asserted that since the constitution establishes the division of authority between the three institutions of government, the members of parliament ought to be free to select the candidates they deem to be most qualified.
Legislators should be free to select whomever they deem qualified, regardless of political affiliation, as long as they believe that individual would help move the country and the members of parliament closer together.
The senator-elect asserted that laws govern the election of members to the nation's two federal houses.
He stated, "For instance, there are three members of parliament who have the authority to (remove) the leadership in the Senate. The first category consists of the leaders and incumbent senators who were re-elected.
Then, the former House of Representatives members who were elected to the Senate have rights as well.
And the newly elected lawmakers, who are serving in the two houses for the first time, do not have the authority to preside over them, according to Kawu Sumaila.
"Changes in leadership are ineffective,"
The elected senator claimed that a similar procedure for choosing the council's leadership had previously existed, but that it had not been successful.
He claims that when a leader is impeached, the majority of MPs frequently do not support it, to the point where they vote to remove them.
He said that two times in the past, conflicts led to the removal of parliament presidents.
"In the past, we saw how the ruling party and the presidency sat down and chose Patricia Etteh, but later the members of parliament rebelled against her and dropped her, choosing Bankole," he stated.
I disagree with zoning.
The elected senator stated that there should be leaders who would uphold the dignity of the nation and its people about the split of legislative offices into zones.
Not the charterers, he argued, who would only need to sign it after receiving a written order from the executive branch or the president.
"Because it has happened previously when Okadigbo was taken and Anyim Pius Anyim was brought when Patricia Etteh was removed and brought to Bankole.
Additionally, rather than the executive or their party, the MPs invited Dogara and Saraki before bringing Ken Nnamani, according to Kawu.
He remarked, "Has the APC ever produced a vice president from Lagos state who is Arab? And from the same state, it also produced the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who is Arab. Take this here, (take this there?) is the sole situation in which it knows how to divide positions.
Religion shouldn't be a problem.
He asserted that the ability to perform is more crucial than sectarianism or a particular religion.
He recalled that Majority Leader Ndoma Egba, Ike Ekweremadu, and Senator David Mark, who presided over the Senate at the time, were all Christians.