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  • Senate moves to suspend Senator Adamu, others over plot to remove Saraki

    The Senate yesterday accused Senator Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa East, APC) and other lawmakers for plotting to overthrow Senate President BukolaSaraki and to also remove other members of the leadership of the Upper Chamber.

    Already, there is tension in the Red Chamber as the Senators are divided. While some are reportedly working to remove Saraki, others are insisting that the Senate President must not be laid off.

    Consequently, senate has directed its Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to investigate the allegation of insurrection plot against leadership of the senate and the plot to destabilize the upper legislative chamber as a whole by the group of senators allegedly led by Senator Adamu. But Senator Adamu in a swift reaction dismissed the allegation, saying categorically that he has not in any way organised a group to destabilize Senate and or hatch any plan to remove Saraki from office.

    The former Nasarawa State governor, Adamu who was recently removed as the chairman of the Northern Senators’ Forum was indicted of leading nine senators who had stormed out of plenary in protest over amendment of election sequence by the Senate.

    Yesterday, the Committee investigating Adamu was given two weeks to report back to the senate plenary. He may likely be suspended by the Senate. The resolution of the senate followed the alarm raised by Senator ObinnaOgba (PDP EbonyiCentral ) through order 43 of the Senate standing rules , saying documentary evidence on the alleged plot was already in his possession for the Senate to nip it in the bud.

    According to Senator Ogba “ I rise this morning to bring to the notice of the Senate that there is a plan by some people in this Senate under the leadership of Senator AbdullahiAdamu.In January, Senator IsahHammanMisau (APC Bauchi Central) made a comment here that there was a plan to remove the Senate President and the entire leadership.

    “Now, I have a reliable information that some people are already planning to destabilize the Senate, including the leadership by organising demonstrations. I believe that all of us are leaders and none of us should do anything that will destabilize the country or the Senate. Anything that will destabilize our democracy, we should avoid it.

    “There is a telephone discussion going on between Senator AbdullahiAdamu and other people.This is a very serious issue. When this issue was raised in January, we did not take it seriously. We must have to stand up and look into it. Waving it aside is not the best thing. If I have your permission, I want to lay the evidence in full,” he stated.

    The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu who presided over the session obliged him to lay the alleged documentary evidence and mandated the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petition to carry out thorough investigation on the allegation and report back within two weeks.

    “We have received this information. For whatever it is worth, we will refer it to our appropriate committee on Public Petitions to look at it and report back within two weeks.If found guilty by the committee, AbdullahiAdamu may be suspended from the senate for a specified time as experienced by Senator Ali Ndume last year,” Ekweremadu stated. However, Senator AbdullahiAdamu in a telephone discussion with senate correspondents, said he has the opportunity to contest for the seat of the senate president three years ago, which he didn’t do due to lack of interest and cannot remove Saraki now.

    He said ‘’I am not in anyway after Saraki. Saraki is like a son to me. I have every right to contest for the Senate President seat three years ago when the 8th Senate was inaugurated, but I never did because I wasn’t interested. It is therefore, not logical for anyone to say I’m interested in the seat now, and will be planning to destabilise the Senate.

    To achieve what?For what purpose? It is not right for anyone to make such unfounded insinuations. ‘’We are almost three years in office, election year is drawing nearer, and I think any one thinking of upstaging the leadership of the Senate for any reason will only be fighting a lost battle because it is not what should naturally occupy the mind of any serious minded lawmaker now.

    “As for me, let me repeat that I’m not in anyway after Saraki, I can’t be after Saraki, and I won’t do anything to upstage the leadership as being claimed because it’s a fruitless venture,” Adamu insisted.

  • Senator Adamu who demanded corruption trial for Obasanjo now under probe for mismanaging N70m

    Senator Abdullahi Adamu [APC, Nasarawa West,] who took a swipe at former President Olusegun Obasanjo for criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari, has been removed from office as the Chairman, Northern Senators Forum, over allegations bothering on mismanagement of N70m belonging to northern governors.

    Adamu was on Wednesday said to be replaced by Senator Wamakko Aliyu as the new Chairman of Norther Senators Forum.

    According to a Senator @ShehuSani it was alleged that some monkeys took the money belonging to northern.

    Recall that Adamu who recently attacked Obasanjo in a media briefing said the former president ought to be on trial for his activities while in office.

    Adamu’s words on Obasanjo: “Chief Obasanjo said President Buhari is selective in his anti-corruption war. I agree with him because if the President were not selective, Chief Obasanjo himself would be in the dock today on trial on charges arising from the pursuit of his third term gambit in the National Assembly in 2006.”

  • APC can’t magically right PDP’s wrongs of 16years in one year – Sen Adamu

    A National Assembly member, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu (APC-Nasarawa), says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is making good what the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made bad during its 16-year rule.

    Adamu, who made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Tuesday, said that the rot accumulated between 1999 and 2015 that PDP held sway in governance was much.

    “What it took them 16 years to damage, we cannot take just one year of some magical works to get everything corrected,” he said.

    According to him, the PDP fails to realise deliberately that the APC cannot just perform magic within this short period, because they have nothing on their agenda but mere propaganda.

    “They have not been doing enough work and spending enough time to plan what is called opposition in the real sense of democracy. They feel calling people names, abusing people and propaganda is opposition, this is wrong.

    “They will not get the desired result out of that.

    “For instance, the propaganda that Monkey Pox was induced by vaccines from the military, what can be more absurd than that and they have kept quiet because it is an agenda.

    “This negativity is from the PDP stable; this is a smear campaign, I pity their strategy,” Adamu said.

    On the recent comment by the PDP Senate Caucus that it would dislodge the ruling party, the lawmaker said that they were only giving the impression that they were still relevant in the political arena.

    He, however, said that the political space was big enough for associations wanting to be recognised like the PDP, to impact on the Nigerian polity.

    “PDP is no longer what it used to be. PDP is a party that had 16 years and then toward the end, they got so strong and got a bit power drunk.

    “Unfortunately, through intoxication they lost everything that there was in political fortunes, they had to go back to the table to start all over,” he said.

    Adamu, who is a former governor of Nasarawa, lauded Gov. Umaru Al-Makura, for his efforts at developing the state, saying “given the circumstances, he has given the best he can’’.

    “I support the government of Nasarawa. I believe no administration is perfect; no administration provides everything that the populace requires; I believe that he is doing well enough,” he said.

     

    NAN

  • Adamu trying to Islamise Nigeria, new curriculum without CRK is time bomb – CAN

    Sequel to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu’s claim that Christian Religious Knowledge (CRK) was not removed from the secondary school education curriculum, the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN) has reacted, insisting that the subject has been removed.

    It challenged the Ministry “to publish the full details of the controversial new Curriculum of Education if they have no hidden agenda ”.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council on Tuesday in a statement debunked claims that the subject (Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK) has been removed from schools’ curriculum.

    TheNewsGuru.com also reports that Adamu faulted the position of CAN over the matter when he spoke to newsmen after Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in the State House on Wednesday.

    The Minister noted that the dummy was sold to CAN by the social media and probably by an individual who wanted to add to the growing tension in the country.

    His words: “On the issue of CRK which the social media took up and deceived the leadership of CAN and they believed it because as l read in the newspapers, they were asking the acting president to confirm it, there is no truth in it at all.

    “It was just the work of somebody’s imagination; probably somebody who wishes to raise the tension of the country after the Biafra issue and then quit order given by some young people in the North; it then follows that somebody is trying to fuel the embers of the tension. There is no truth whatsoever in it. Certainly, there was a policy in 2012 which was given effect in 2014 before this government came in.

    “One of the things I did when I assumed the office of the minister was to speak to the National Educational Council to disarticulate History from Social Studies curriculum because we needed young people to know History. You cannot know who you are without knowing who your ancestors were.

    “The next thing l did was to ask the National Council on Education (NEC) to accept and agree to it and they did accept and agreed. The CRK has been made compulsory for all Christians and Islamic Religious Knowledge has also been made compulsory for all Muslims ”.

    However, reacting on Thursday (today), CAN President, Rev Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle said the Christian body spoke about the “perceived dangers packaged in the new Curriculum of Education” when it met with the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

    In the statement, Ayokunle noted: “In this curriculum, Islamic and Christian Religious Studies will no longer be studied in schools as subjects on their own but as themes in a civic education.

    “This undermines the sound moral values that these two subjects had imparted in the past to our children which had made us to religiously and ethnically co-exist without any tension.

    “Islamic Religious Knowledge was equally made available as a subject in another section without any corresponding availability of Christian Religious Knowledge. Is this not a divisive curriculum that can set the nation on fire? Is this fair to millions of Christians in this nation?”

    Th e CAN President cited a case in Kwara State where a student was punished for refusing to register for Islamic Religious Knowledge.

    “A Christian student in a secondary school in Kwara State had his body lacerated with cane by the Arabic Teacher because the pupil refused to do Islamic Religious Knowledge when French Teacher was not available and Christian Religious Knowledge, Hebrew or Greek were not part of the options at all.

    ” The chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria in Delta State has also called to complain that students are calling him to say that their teachers are saying that they will no longer be doing CRK as a subject again. Who is deceiving whom?

    ” As far as CAN is concerned, the curriculum is a time-bomb, obnoxious, divisive and ungodly and its implementation must be stopped until all the grey areas are addressed. Like we told the Acting President, it’s introduction is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good for so many reasons.

    ” If we are going to do pilgrimage together as a nation, there must be fair play, mutual respect for one another and justice which can be brought about by different arms of government. We demand justice from the government on this matter very quickly.

    ” We request for a return to the curriculum we were using before this dangerous one which did not produce insurgents or a wrongly indoctrinated Nigerians. It was the students that came from a school system where morning devotion was removed that are behind the insurgency and kidnappings that are happening now and then.

    ” Those of us who passed through the former system where we all did devotion in the morning and in the afternoon at closing in our schools lived together peacefully irrespective of our religions. The government must stop the operation of this new curriculum. It did not come out of a forward-looking research but a backward one. A stitch in time saves nine.

    ” We caution the Federal Government against the use of propaganda in addressing this sensitive issue because the unity of the country is at stake. We are not crying wolves where none exists.

    ” We are disappointed hearing the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu claiming that CAN was believing a piece of misinformation received from the social media.

    ” To say the least, that is a misleading statement from a Minister who is not only trying to Islamise the ministry with all the appointments he has made but denying the reality of discrimination policy under his watch.

    ” We counsel Adamu to reconcile his position with the spokesperson of his ministry who agreed that both CRK, IRK and Civic Education had been merged to become one subject before denying the reality.

    CAN further demanded “That the implementation of the curriculum must be suspended till a workshop is organised where all the stakeholders must be well represented.

    ” That the Presidency should direct the Federal Ministry of Education to publish the full details of the curriculum on its website to enable everyone know what it contains.

    ” That there was nothing wrong with the old curriculum on Christian Religious Studies and Islamic Religious Studies. What people are yearning for is a return to Civic Education and History for obvious reasons as distinct subjects.

    ”That the heads of the parastatals and agencies in the Federal Ministry of Education should be overhauled with a view to balancing the religious dichotomy. A situation where 13 of their heads are Muslims while the remaining four are Christians is an ill-wind that would blow no one any good.

    ”That the Presidency should call for a meeting of all stakeholders to look at this curriculum line by line and for all of us to own it together before implementation ” .