Senator Anthony George Manzo (PDP, Taraba North) is the vice chairman, Senate Committee on Information, and is unarguably one of the few respected voices in the upper chamber, whose opinions are often sought by its leadership in taking decisions on crucial national issues. In this interview with STANLEY YAKUBU, the senator disagrees with those criticizing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua for welcoming into the PDP, some state governors who deserted their hitherto political parties, saying there is no constitutional provision that is opposed to that. He also talks about his experience as a former Nigeria's Ambassador to Israel.
President Yar'Adua recently submitted six bills to the National Assembly, one of which is seeking to prohibit cross carpeting, yet, he has been busy receiving defecting governors into your party, the PDP. How do we reconcile this?
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