We’ll not be laid back legislators – Senator Ningi

Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi)  says senators at the 10th National Assembly will not be laid-back legislators.

Ningi who represents Bauchi Central, said this when he spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

“We are not going to be confrontational as we have never been. But we are not going to be laid-back legislators. To make sure we understand some things, we make sure they understand our powers to make sure that we understand our limitations.

“We will outrightly inform the Executive of our powers under the Constitution, under the House Rules and under the legislative matters privileges.

“We are not going to be caged. I am very happy this afternoon that the first thing that the Senate President did was to call for an executive session with very exhaustive deliberations.

“And I am happy he has started on a very clean slate. “I can see that he is ready for this job and we have assured him that once he gives us our respect, we are going to accord him our full loyalty,” he said.

Ningi added: “We will also caution him that in spite of whatever happened, the Senate is the Institution that made him Senate President and the chairman of the National Assembly.

“Because he is a ranking senator he understands that on behalf of the people of this country over the years things have not been done so well that time will give us another opportunity to redo what we have not been able to do in the last couple of years.”

Ningi, a former Deputy Leader of the Senate, said that the nation was facing uncertainties some months ago, but with with the inauguration of the National Assembly, Nigerians would benefit from their experiences.

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