Sorthern youths condemn Buhari’s aide on Senate comments

By Baba Yusuf Abuja

A group, Northern Youths Vanguard (NYV), has descended heavily on the Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Hon. Kawu Sumaila. Th e group said the content of the interview particularly the statement accusing the Senate of not supporting the eff orts of President Buhari was “malicious and unbecoming of Sumaila’s status.” A statement issued by the group’s President and Secretarygeneral, Comrades Abdulmumini Ishaq, and Kalmasi Abdulaziz said Sumaila, noted that “it is only an opportunist who wants to cash on the opportunity of his being in the presidency to cause disharmony between the Presidency and the Senate.

” It challenged the special assistant to point out what looked like the lack of support of the Senate to the APC government since its inauguration on May 29, 2015. NYV further said that despite Kawu’s background of being a northerner, blink support to whomdoes a thing wrongly should not be tolerated. It also said that the APC “controls majority in the both houses,” adding that “no appointment or nomination sent to the Senate since its inauguration on June 8, 2015, by the present administration has been delayed for screening or approval.

” Th e group reminded Sumaila that when national issues “are fl aunted with arrant disregard to orders of the Senate by appointees of the government, like him, the Red Chamber has treaded softly for national peace.” It called on Nigerians to disregard and give deaf ears to Sumaila as “he is not on national assignment, but stomach infrastructure.”NYV further advised him to borrow a leaf from his colleague in the Senate, Senator Ita Enang, whose comments on National Assembly matters were regarded as sacrosanct.

It stated that the content of Sumaila’s interview with the Freedom Radio was “only a mountain of balderdash that only unemployed listeners can be interested in.” Th e Vanguard also said Nigerians without boundaries “are busy praying for the return of President Muhammadu Buhari, and, therefore, a highly placed appointee of the president at this to preach treachery on the institution of the Senate, speaks of the emptiness of the occupant of any offi ce.” It enjoined the Senate to continue on the path of good leadership that “it has traded in the past two years and not to be distracted by statements of Sumaila and the likes.”

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