“Graciously he rose from his seat, embraced and congratulated the man who had defeated him and that immediately put the elected speaker at ease. That can only help to deepen democracy. More than that, Gbajabiamila demonstrated that his ambition was not just to occupy an office, so he turned down, without hesitation, the offer to take the position of deputy. He gained my respect and admiration and I dare say that gesture has surely put the entire House at ease in much the same way as former President Jonathan’s decision to concede victory to President Buhari helped to put Nigeria at ease. “In the Red Chamber, the Senate, the story was quite different. The President, a newly elected President had called members of his party to a meeting ahead of the convocation. Some members of his party and the Clerk of the Senate took advantage of that to enact what can only be described as an unfortunate return to garrison politics. How sad! How very sad! “Forget what the party had done, I will come to that, but this is a President that had said, with all honesty, that he had no favorite. Who knows if what the President intended to tell his party members at the meeting that was so rudely snubbed was not to say that they should vote their conscience. After all the National Assembly which is composed of several parties is to serve the nation and not only one party. Read the rest of the story on Vanguard..
Former
Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Founding Father and Life Member PDP Board
of Trustees, BoT,Obong Victor Attah who described what happened at the
Senate as very sad and return to garrison politics, said, “It is my
conviction that the Nigerian political space should have been spared the
type of pollution that occurred in the Senate chamber on Tuesday 9th
June 2015.
“First let me look at the process. In the Green Chamber,
Gbajabiamila, a well respected and popular contestant for speakership
and indeed the preferred candidate of his party, the APC, lost. He lost
by eight votes. Pity, but the fact remains that he lost by a democratic
process.
“Graciously he rose from his seat, embraced and congratulated the man who had defeated him and that immediately put the elected speaker at ease. That
can only help to deepen democracy.
More than that, Gbajabiamila demonstrated that his ambition was not just to occupy an office, so he turned down, without hesitation, the offer to take the position of deputy.
He gained my respect and admiration and I dare say that gesture has surely put the entire House at ease in much the same way as former President Jonathan’s decision to concede victory to President Buhari helped to put Nigeria at
ease.
“In the Red Chamber, the Senate, the story was quite different. The President, a newly elected President had called members of his party to a meeting ahead of the convocation. Some members of his party and the Clerk
of the Senate took advantage of that to enact what can only be described as an unfortunate return to garrison politics. How sad! How very sad!
“Forget what the party had done, I will come to that, but this is a President that had said, with all honesty, that he had no favorite. Who knows if what the President intended to tell his party members at the meeting that was so rudely snubbed was not to say that they should vote
their conscience. After all the National Assembly which is composed of several parties is to serve the nation and not only one party.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/what-happened-at-the-senate-was-sad-bad-says-victor-attah/#sthash.hBgNWNYc.dpuf
Obong Victor Attah
“Graciously he rose from his seat, embraced and congratulated the man who had defeated him and that immediately put the elected speaker at ease. That
can only help to deepen democracy.
More than that, Gbajabiamila demonstrated that his ambition was not just to occupy an office, so he turned down, without hesitation, the offer to take the position of deputy.
He gained my respect and admiration and I dare say that gesture has surely put the entire House at ease in much the same way as former President Jonathan’s decision to concede victory to President Buhari helped to put Nigeria at
ease.
“In the Red Chamber, the Senate, the story was quite different. The President, a newly elected President had called members of his party to a meeting ahead of the convocation. Some members of his party and the Clerk
of the Senate took advantage of that to enact what can only be described as an unfortunate return to garrison politics. How sad! How very sad!
“Forget what the party had done, I will come to that, but this is a President that had said, with all honesty, that he had no favorite. Who knows if what the President intended to tell his party members at the meeting that was so rudely snubbed was not to say that they should vote
their conscience. After all the National Assembly which is composed of several parties is to serve the nation and not only one party.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/what-happened-at-the-senate-was-sad-bad-says-victor-attah/#sthash.hBgNWNYc.dpuf
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