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  The dramatic election of four key officers of the National Assembly yesterday unsettled the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and breathed life into the Peoples Democratic Party which lost its prime position to the APC. At the end of intrigues and drama that followed the battle for the four presiding officers’ positions in the National Assembly, all the candidates of the APC lost to the candidates backed by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In his immediate reaction to the emergence of the National Assembly presiding officers, President Muhammadu Buhari acknowledged that a constitutional process has occurred in the election even though he wished the process had followed the initiative by the APC. Senator Bukola Saraki of the APC was returned unopposed as Senate President as the game of intrigues which played through Monday night to the early hours caught the APC leadership on the wrong side. His emergence was facilitated by the solid backing of the...

Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology and one of the leading contestants for the Senate Presidency in the 8th Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki has faulted the passage of 46 bills in less than ten minutes. But the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang has said that there was nothing wrong in legislative reciprocity as according to him, the House of Representatives followed all the necessary legislative procedures in the passage of the bills. Senator Enang also said that the House of Representatives also concurred to the bills sent to it from the Senate, stressing that adopting legislative reciprocity had caused no injury. “There are times you apply legislative dexterity to solve legislative problem,” he stated Saraki, in a statement in Abuja, to mark the end of the Seventh Senate, decried the passage of 46 bills in 10 minutes. According to him, “The new Senate must now learn and show that it has the vigour and drive to work harder thro...