Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Ned Nwoko, has dismissed rumours making the spherical that the previous governor of River State, Nyesom Wike, influenced the emergence of minority leaders of the tenth National Assembly.
He described the hearsay as baseless, stating that Wike can not symbolize seven political events that made up the minority.
Speaking with journalists on Wednesday in his workplace, Nwoko, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, pressured that the opposition Senators selected their very own earlier than Tuesday’s plenary.
He stated, “The minority parties in the 10th assembly consist of seven political parties.
“This becomes the requirement for those parties to nominate who will be the minority leader, and the question is this, is wike a member of seven political parties?”
Reacting to some dissenting voices among the many PDP Senators, Nwoko stated they have been entitled to their opinion, including {that a} quantity of signatures have been required earlier than the minority leaders have been unveiled.
“Over two weeks now, some people were going about to collect signatures of Senators for this exercise and have met the requirements, so there is nothing anybody can do.
“PDP as a party knows when the 10th Assembly was inaugurated, and if they want to participate in the nomination of the leadership, how many times have they called for meeting?
“So nobody should cry over spilled milk”.
Finally, he assured of sturdy legislative actions in the curiosity of Nigerians.
