Minority Parties in the 10th Senate have warned that any attempt to destabilise their ranks within the current Senate would be resisted.
A press statement signed by Senator Mohammed Adamu Aliero – CON, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson – CON, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal – CFR, Senator Abdul Ningi – CON, Senator Patrick Abba Moro, Senator Onyebuchi Francis Ezenwa, Senator Sumaila Kawu – OFR and Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah said the attempt by forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the Minority Parties and foist a pliant and compromised leadership on them will be resisted.
“It has come to the notice of the Minority Political Parties in the Senate of an attempt by forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the Minority Parties and foist a pliant and compromised leadership on them.
The group cautioned the Senate leadetship and the Executive branch of government not to aid any group inside or outside the Senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the Senate institution.
“We have pledged to work constructively with the new Senate leadership and the Executive branch to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. We consequently hereby advise and caution that they should not aid any group inside or outside the Senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the Senate institution.
“Senators of the minority Parties would meet when the Senate reconvenes and, in consultation with our respective political parties, would select its leaders without undue interference from anti democratic forces within or outside the Senate.
“For the avoidance of doubt, no Senator has yet been endorsed or selected for any Minority position as this would await due process as agreed by all Minority Parties in their last meeting.
The group said any attempt to foist a one party dictatorship would be resisted and it would fail.
Congluding, they called on call on all members of the Minority Political Parties to work together in unity to defend the democratic institution of the Senate and Nigeria.
