"In the last eight weeks or so, almost 90 per cent of the senators were distracted with one court case or the other. I want Nigerians to give us sometimes to see what we can bring to the house."
About 90 per cent of senators of the 10th National Assembly have election cases in courts across the country.
FCT senator, Ireti Kingibe, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said the lawmakers are distracted by the cases arising from the 2023 general election.
Mrs Kingibe of the Labour Party (LP) spoke a day after her election was reaffirmed by the tribunal on Tuesday.
The Senate has 109 members.
"In the last eight weeks or so, almost 90 per cent of the senators were distracted with one court case or the other. I want Nigerians to give us sometimes to see what we can bring to the house. You can assess us within eight weeks.
"However, we are in recess now and the cases in court constituted a form of distraction, but the cases are almost over now, and when we reconvened, Nigerians would see the senators doing their work with zeal and patriotism," she said.
Mr Kingibe called on her opponents to join hands with her toward making the territory a greater place.
"I feel a great sense of relief on Tuesday night when the election tribunal affirmed me as the duly elected senator for the FCT," she said.
She thanked 'Obidients', and her legal team for a job well done, saying it was time to start facing the work that the people of FCT elected her to do.
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"I will like to reach out to Sen. Aduda. There is no victor and there is no vanquish. He has ran a good race and now is over. I want him to come and work with me to work for the FCT.
"Let us, together do for the FCT the things he would have done had he won. The goal is to make FCT great. I have worked with him in the past and I am sure that is what he would wish.
"I also want to reach out to Honourable Zakari and everyone that contested with me and others that have always strive for the best of the FCT to join hands with me to make FCT a great place.
"The city has regressed in the last 20 years. It is not the fault of anyone. But this is the seat of government and face of Nigeria; we should make it a place that we would be proud of," Mrs Kingibe said.
She also pledged that the Senate Committee on FCT would work closely with Nyesom Wike, the minister, to ensure that the right thing was done and the city attained greatness.
Mrs Kingibe promised to ensure that sufficient laws were made to protect women, pledging to ensure that the 35 per cent affirmation for women was realised, as the chairperson of the committee on women's right.
She promised to unveil programmes for promotion of women's right and gender activism in the country.
She added that websites for the programmes had already been designed and were ready for launch.
(NAN)
