Nigeria: Senate Warns Executive Not to Consider Its Maturity As Weakness

20 June 2016

Abuja — The Senate yesterday expressed its strong opposition to the move by the federal government to charge its President Bukola Saraki, his deputy Ike Ekweremadu, the immediate past Clerk of the National Assembly Salisu Maikasuwa and the Deputy Clerk Benedict Efeturi to court on allegations of forgery of the Senate's Standing Orders in June 2015.

It also raised the alarm over the attempt by the executive arm of government to truncate Nigeria's democracy by attempting to cripple the legislature in its desperate bid to forcefully change the leadership of the Senate, and warned the federal government not to mistake its maturity and the hand of cooperation that it had extended to the presidency as a sign of weakness.

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