The Senate on Thursday
finally screened the former Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, a
ministerial nominee from Rivers State.
The Senate had twice
postponed the screening of the former governor owing to some allegations of
fraud levelled against him by the Rivers State Government and the scheduled
trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal on
alleged false declaration of assets on Wednesday.
At the inception of the
screening on Thursday, however, Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, had
opposed Amaechi’s screening on the grounds that the report of the ad hoc
committee, set up by the Senate to look into the petitions against Amaechi’s
nomination, had only been submitted but not considered by the lawmakers.
After Saraki asked Amaechi to go after 50 minutes of questioning, hordes
of supporters, who had taken over the lobby of the Senate Chamber and the
assembly’s complex, started a mini celebration along the corridor, singing,
“You don win!”
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