Lawan names Orji Kalu, Enyinnaya Abaribe, Abdullahi, Boroffice, others as principal officers
EIGHT principal officers were yesterday named by Senate President Ahmed Lawan. Each of the two major parties – All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party – has four principal officers.
The Senate president urged his colleagues to roll up their sleeves for the daunting tasks ahead, which he said, must begin in earnest.In the welcome address which he read at plenary, Lawan listed poverty, insecurity and corruption among the ills plaguing the nation and which the lawmakers must tackle.
“In exercising these powers, we will not only review, monitor and supervise projects being implemented by the executive, we will critically examine them“And we will follow the progress of these projects right from conception to when they are finally delivered to the people. But we will do so with every sense of responsibility.”
“So, in exercising our mandate as lawmakers, we must at all times, and in all circumstances, be guided by how our action will positively impact the greater majority of our people. “I intend to work closely with President Buhari in the interest of Nigeria without compromising the integrity of the National Assembly as an independent arm of government with oversight powers.”
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