Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan has stated that his
leadership as Nigeria’s ninth Senate President was not for personal
reasons.
Speaking at a briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, Lawan submitted that
working for the success of the office of the Senate President was more
important than occupying the office because of its paraphernalia.
He said that the election that brought him into office as the Senate
President cut across different political lines, noting that the Senate
under his leadership would not discriminate against any one because of
party leaning.
“It’s one thing to be the Senate President and National Chairman of
the National Assembly, it’s another thing to work and succeed. Probably,
that is the most difficult challenge and I want to invite and urge you
to join us in our quest for nation building.”
“Our leadership of the National Assembly is not for personal reasons.”
“I believe that our country needs us. They need all hand on deck to
move forward and that means that the lawmakers must be proactive to
perform their statutory responsibility.”
We are not going to be partisan because it is important to us to know
that our elections into the office of the Senate President and Deputy
Senate President clearly show bipartisan.
“We are going to seize this opportunity to work together cohesively in the interest of the nation.”
He commended Senate Press Corps for exhibiting utmost level of
professionalism during and after election of principal officers of the
National Assembly that led to his emergence as Senate President.”