{"id":50761,"date":"2018-10-10T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50761"},"modified":"2018-10-10T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:43:16","slug":"nass-crisis-i-dont-have-anything-to-do-with-sarakis-removal-senator-lawan-makes-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50761","title":{"rendered":"NASS crisis: I don’t have anything to do with Saraki’s removal – Senator Lawan makes u-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, (APC) has made a u-turn in his threat to remove Senate President, Bukola Saraki from office.<\/p>\n

Lawan had told the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari, that the party\u2019s senate caucus will impeach Saraki, and \u201cforce through a lot of things\u201d when lawmakers reconvene on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Asked to explain the threats, the Leader told Punch that he only wanted the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration to succeed.<\/p>\n

He said he wanted the bills and pressing national issues before the Senate to be attended to and did not want a government he is part of to fail.<\/p>\n

The Yobe born politician added, \u201cI want to assume that every one of us will be responsive and responsible to see the need and necessity of considering those issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if the leadership refuses, then we will have to take every measure to ensure that we pass them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot see the reason why we cannot consider them. Anybody who says we can\u2019t, we have every right to say it is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmaker declined to respond to a question on whether the pro-Buhari senators were still bent on removing change in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t have anything to do with that. I want my government to succeed; I want President Muhammadu Buhari to succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When reminded of the earlier calls for Saraki\u2019s removal as Senate President, Lawan said, \u201cI know but I don\u2019t want to answer questions if I feel that I am not\u2026 What is crucial to me is the success of this administration.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate Majority Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, (APC) has made a u-turn in his threat to remove Senate President, Bukola Saraki from office. Lawan had told the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and President Muhammadu Buhari, that the party\u2019s senate caucus will impeach Saraki, and \u201cforce through a lot of things\u201d when lawmakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5977],"class_list":["post-50761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-ahmad-lawal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}