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Why I Lost Senate Presidency To Saraki – Lawan
Senate President Ahmad Lawan has revealed why he lost the green chamber presidency to Bukola Saraki in 2015.
Lawan said he didn’t emerge as the country’s number three man in 2015 because it wasn’t the will of God to attain such position then.
Ekohotblog reports that Lawan disclosed this while addressing newsmen on occasion of his 62nd birthday anniversary in Abuja on Tuesday.
Lawan said despite missing out on the lofty and coveted position, he didn’t allow that to affect his legislative obligations and relationship with Saraki as he put his loss behind him and worked with the former senate president for the interest and good of Nigerians.
In 2015, Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, former majority leader of the house of representatives, were at the last minute, pencilled down by the All Progressives Congress (APC) for positions of senate president and speaker respectively.
However, In a bizarre twist of event Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, a lawmaker from Bauchi, override and outwit the party and emerged number three and four citizens respectively.
The development occasioned a cold and frosty relationship between the legislature and the executive led by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“In 2015, you will recall when I wanted to be senate president, and God in his wisdom decided, No. You are not going to be. Someone else will be. Then of course senator Saraki became the president of the senate,” Lawan said.
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“We believe in God. We worked together in the senate for the benefit of our people and when in 2019, God said it is time, guess what? 109 senators have the same mindset, the same attitudinal disposition to making Nigeria better, to working with the executive arm of government for the betterment of our country.”
The number three citizen said the senate under his leadership and national assembly at large have discharged “our responsibilities very well.”
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