Expect showdown on July 28, senator tells Saraki, others


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From Adetutu Folasade-Koyi, Abuja
SENATE leadership crisis became messy yester­day when Senator Kabir Marafa described Deputy Senate Leader, Bala Ibn Na’Allah, as “a disgrace” to the law profession. Allegations of forgery of the Standing Orders also continued to rock the Eighth Senate at the weekend.
In a direct response to Sunday Sun report where Na’Allah described Marafa as ignorant of parlia­mentary and party rules regarding election of prin­cipal officers, Marafa queried his knowledge of the Constitution and the Senate Standing Orders as a lawyer. He hinted of a showdown with the Senate Leadership when the chamber returns from recess on July 28.
Marafa described Na’Allah as a hypocrite, an opportunist and insisted that it was a misnomer to bring the issue of federal character into the cham­ber.
“Na’Allah is a hypocrite. Speak on! You are a disgrace to the Law profession. It is always a disap­pointment, when you take somebody for something and realise they are exactly the opposite when the time comes!
“That is exactly my experience with Sen Bala Na’Allah. It is quite disgraceful if he applied the provisions of Section 14 (3&4) (of the 1999 Con­stitution, as amended, which talks about federal character in running the affairs of government at federal, state and local levels and their agencies) to the legislative chambers of the National Assembly!
“Anybody who talks about federal character in the chambers of either the National Assembly or the judiciary is either a dunce or a hypocrite. I think Sen Bala belongs to the latter!”
Marafa, who represents Zamfara Central and is also from the North-west like Na’Allah, reminded him of the story he told him of a former governor­ship aspirant in his home state of Kebbi which influ­enced Na’Allah’s move from the Senate Unity Fo­rum to The Like Minds, loyal to Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki before Tuesday, June 9.
Marafa dismissed claims of observing federal character in the chamber as he recounted how the Senate President, his deputy and the Senate Leader in the Seventh Senate were all Christians without anyone raising any eyebrow over it.
“Where was Na’Allah when Senator David Mark, his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu and Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, all Christians, emerged as Senate President, deputy and Senate Leader respec­tively? How did Senator Ndoma-Egba become Sen­ate Leader even as he came from the same zone as the then President?” he querried

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