Senate Presidency: Don’t place personal interest above party, APC tells Ndume

Senate Presidency: Don’t place personal interest above party, APC tells Ndume

Posted on April 12, 2019 Authornewsheadline247

Yobe Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has advised Sen. Ali Ndume (Borno-APC), to respect the supremacy of the party and avoid placing personal interest above collective interest. Alhaji Abubakar Bakabe, the state’s secretary of the party, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Damaturu. “The interest

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Why we support Ndume’s removal as Senate Leader – APC

Senator Ali Ndume

Premium Times  The All Progressives Congress, APC, has welcomed the development in the Nigerian Senate, which led to the replacement of the former Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, with Ahmed Lawan.

The party in a statement by its spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Tuesday said it views the change in leadership “as concrete expression of faith by the APC Senate Caucus in our efforts to resolve the lingering issues that have trailed the election of Senate leadership”.

Senate clears National Assembly of budget padding

• Upper chamber says it can’t impeach Buhari alone
• Reps deputy whip faults allegation
• I’ve been vindicated, says Obasanjo

Protesting its innocence, the Senate yesterday declared that it could not have been complicit in the alleged padding of the N6.06 trillion 2016 budget by the House of Representatives when the National Assembly is the authority statutorily empowered to produce the nation’s fiscal plan.

Senate Majority Leader, Ali Ndume who made the assertion at a press conference in Abuja, also said the Senate cannot impeach the president because impeachment is not a one- man-show as the procedure will involve both chambers of the National Assembly and the Judiciary.