9TH SENATE: LAWAN IS NOT A STOOGE, BANKS ON MOST SENATORS 'ENDORSEMENT Senate Spokesman Sen Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi

With less than forty days to the inauguration of the 9th Senate and the coming on board of new presiding officers, Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi has said that the Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan is not a stooge who enjoys the backing of majority of the senators-elect.

Speaking on Friday during a political program in Abuja, Senator Abdullahi who is the spokesman of the Ahmad Lawan for Senate President, said his colleagues believe in him that is why he’s getting the cooperation.

“Every single Senator is important on who becomes the Senate President and for us in Ahmed Lawan camp we are visiting, we are engaging because we want to build a consensus around how the 9th Senate should be different, especially from the lesson we have learnt from the 7th and 8th Senate respectively.”

Reacting to the insinuations that Senator Lawan was being backed by Bola Tinubu the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) because of the latter’s 2023 presidential election Abdullahi said, “As far as I’m concerned as the spokesman, I think I’m clearly in the happenings of the 8th senate, I know who is who so Ahmed Lawan is not a stooge; his movement was started by his colleagues before it received the blessing of the party leadership ”

On the issue of insecurity, Abdullahi stated that state police will not solve the problem of banditry but rather worsen the situation. He, therefore, canvassed for community policing which he said will go along way in curbing kidnapping and banditry.