WHAT A DECENT AND RESPONSIBLE APC HONOURABLE...................Although the APC leadership boasted on Sunday that its directive was already yielding results, its members in the Senate expressed different views on the issue. One of them, Senator Kabir Marafa, said he would participate in the debates on the 2014 budget, and the screening of the Chief of Defence Staff and service chiefs which will begin this week. Marafa, who said he had not received any official communication from the party on the directive, argued that since the APC was in the minority in the Senate, its members would not be able to frustrate the passage of the budget and the screening of the new military chiefs. He said, “As of today(Sunday), I have not received any official communication from our party directing me not to participate in the debate on the budget or screening of the military chiefs and the ministers. “By 10am on Monday (today), the Committee on Air Force, of which I am a member, will be screening the new Chief of Air Force, and nobody has told me not to participate in the exercise so, I will be there. “In any case, I do not think that our great party which parades eminent, respectable and highly experienced politicians could issue such a directive knowing full well that an institution like the National Assembly has its unique ways of doing things.” “As senators, our responsibility, first and foremost, is to the nation and the people and if my party leaders should call me to tell me to carry out a directive, I will tell them my own position on it first.”
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 04:54:53 +0000