Senate welcomes Buhari's peace move development with OPEN ARMS

The Nigerian Senate has said it welcomes the peace moves by President Buhari “with open arms”

On Thursday, March 31, 2017, the Senate said it had acknowledged the peace moves by President Muhammadu Buhari to end the rattles between the Legislature and the Executive.

This was revealed by Sabi Abdullahi, who is the chairman of Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, during a talk with newsmen.

According to the Punch, Abdullahi said that the National Assembly greeted the initiative ‘with open arms’.

He said: “We have heard about the initiative by President Muhammadu Buhari in setting up a Presidential Committee on Executive-Legislature Relations to be headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.

“It is a good step in the right direction. The Senate, in particular, and the National Assembly in general, is ready to cooperate with the group and work with them to resolve all grey areas standing on the way of the smooth working relationship needed to deepen our fledgling democracy and ensure good governance for the benefits of Nigerians.”

The Senate’s spokesman however singled out that the resolution by the upper chamber of the House to reject the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, should not be seen as the source of the rift.

The legislators had also postponed their consideration of Buhari’s application for the approval of Resident Electoral Commissioners by two weeks, in demonstration against his retention of Magu as the acting Chairman of the EFCC.

He said: “On the RECs, all the Senate said was that if we have passed some resolutions and they were rubbished, why are we passing another?

“The Senate simply asked the President of the Senate to liaise with the President of the country to know what had happened to the passed resolution.”

Reports said that Buhari had on Wednesday, March 29, made the move intended at refining the relationship between the two arms of government, which has gone badlately.

During the meeting of the Federal Executive Council FEC, which he led, the President Buhari allegedly set up a cabinet committee that would proffer a solution to the crisis.