Senator Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the Senate from 2015 to 2019 has come to the defence of Senator Ireti Kingibe representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Senator Kingibe had come under fire for not standing against the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
Recall that the Senate on Thursday suspended the Kogi Central Senator over total disregard of the rules of the Nigerian Senate.
Kingibe is a member of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions that suspended Senator Natasha.
The FCT Senator is also the Senate Committee Chairman on Women Affairs.
Given her position, many felt Senator Kingibe should have rallied round the embattled Senator Natasha when it mattered the most.
However, reacting, Sani wrote on Facebook:
“Some people are attacking Senator Ireti for not standing up to fight in the Senate.
She is already being fought at home by the FCT Minister. If she now picks another battle in the Senate, she will be at war both front and back.
“What will be left of her in that situation? You have to put yourself in her shoes to understand her predicament.
“There are moments you have to choose the battles to fight and the ones to defer.
“If Ireti fights on both sides, she will be loved by the social media but her constituents will revolt against her that “we didn’t send you to fight, we send you to bring something to us and help us”. Politics is intriguing”.