At least seven of the senators who were inaugurated on Tuesday are standing trial for corruption. Five of them are former governors. Although members of the national assembly had once pushed for immunity against prosecution of lawmakers, the legislative houses power and privileges act only shield them from litigation in respect of word spoken or written at plenary. In 2018, Joshua [...]
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Labaran Maku, former minister of information, says Tanko Al-Makura, governor of Nasarawa, and Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing representing Nasarawa west; are fighting because of his mandate to govern that was stolen.In 2015, Maku contested the governorship election of the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) but lost to Umaru Al-Makura, incumbent governor of the state.Maku had alleged [...]
Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nassarawa west, says a forensic audit should be carried out on national assembly spending under the leadership of Senate President Bukola Saraki.Adamu made his position known during a press briefing in Abuja on Sunday.According to the lawmaker, the senate president’s refusal to vacate his seat after defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the [...]
Senate President Bukola Saraki says he has had enough of the “constant attack” on him by Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west.Adamu had accused Saraki of “playing a game of betrayal” in the All Progressives Congress (APC).He was also alleged to have said Saraki referred to Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, as a clown.Responding to his allegations in a [...]
Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, says he would have sent Senate President Bukola Saraki out of Aso Rock if he had attended the recent meeting President Muhammadu Buhari had with senators of the All Progressive Congress (APC).After 14 APC senators defected to other political parties, Buhari invited the remaining senators in the ruling party to a meeting at the presidential villa [...]
Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, has accused the new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) of attempting to "blackmail" the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.nPDP is a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that left the PDP in 2013 to team up with the APC for the 2015 elections.In May, the group wrote John Oyegun, national chairman of APC, listing several [...]
Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, says Senate President Bukola Saraki is like his son, denying being involved in the alleged plot to remove him.On Thursday, Obinna Ogba, senator representing Ebonyi central, laid before the senate what he called "evidence" of Adamu's plot to oust Saraki.But speaking with reporters hours after the statement of Ogba, Adamu said he found what transpired [...]
Ali Wakili, senator representing Bauchi south (pictured middle), has faulted the removal of Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, as chairman of the northern senators forum.He also taunted Shehu Sani, his Kaduna central counterpart, for saying monkeys carted away N70 million from Adamu's farmhouse.On Wednesday, Adamu was removed as chairman of the forum for "financial mismanagement and maladministration".Sani had said the N70 [...]
The northern senators forum has removed Abdullahi Adamu, senator representing Nasarawa west, as its chairman.This was contained in a notice read on the floor of the senate by Ike Ekeweremadu, deputy president of senate, on Wednesday.The forum said it removed Adamu as chairman because of "financial mismanagement and maladministration"."This is to inform the senate that the majority signatories of members of the [...]
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