By Andy Asemota
The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has sworn-in four senators elected in this month’s bye-elections in Bayelsa, Lagos and Plateau States respectively.
Speaking shortly after the immediate past governor of Bayelsa State turned representative of Bayelsa West, Seriake Dickson, and three other senators took their oaths of office and allegiance today, Tuesday, 15th December, Lawan boasted that the members of 9th Senate were more patriotic that anyone or institution in Nigeria and would continue to do so.
“So far, in assessment of ourselves, we have done fairly well as an assembly and the secret is unity of purpose. We believe that we have several challenges and our country needs us now more than it has ever needed us. We are faced with challenges but these are surmountable challenges if we remain united, focussed and support each other,” said Lawan.
The Senate President prayed Nigerians to give the National Assembly and the legislature their utmost support, while asserting that the Senate will not do anything that will deliberately cause any problem in governance of the country.
Addressing newsmen, Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa) noted that the newly elected senators on the platforms of the ruling APC and the opposition PDP were assuming duties when a lot needed to be done to deepened democracy in the next two and a half years in the life of the present dispensation.
His words: “We have a nation to repair, we have a nation to unite, a nation to rebuild and no person or party can do it alone; all hands must be on deck.”
The senator, who vowed to ensure that Bayelsa’s quota in the public service would hence be filled properly, sued for the cooperation of his colleagues to support the development of Bayelsa State.
Other newly sworn-in senators include Nora Daddung (APC, Plateau), Mikhail Adetokunbo (APC, Lagos) and Cleopass Moses (PDP, Bayelsa).
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