- Kabiru Marafa, the senator representing Zamfara central said he fought Senate President, Bukola Saraki based on an order given to him by his party members
- Marafa said he is not saying that his colleagues are not qualified but he is more qualified to fight Saraki by the senate rules
Marafa said he later stopped fighting Saraki when President Muhammadu Buhari intervened
Kabiru Marafa, the senator representing Zamfara central, has revealed how President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) asked him to stop fighting Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
Reports have it that Marafa said on Sunday, July 23, that he fought Saraki because the order was given to him by his party members and he stopped based on the same order.
NAIJ.com gathered that he was Saraki’s lone critic at the upper chamber, until he was made the chairman of the petroleum committee.
Marafa said:“I did not fight Bukola Saraki because he is Saraki; I fought because my party said I should fight and when my party said I should stop, I stopped. The decision is to end all these hostilities and bring the two sides together was taken by APC and President Buhari himself. It was not me or anybody.
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“The party said my children, come together, this one has won the senate president, you this side give them the Senate Leader and Deputy Senate Leader, and it was done, was that not what happened?
‘’Now you have formed committees, give them some committees, is that not what happened? I don’t know why Nigerians forget things easily. It was the party and President Buhari that intervened.
“So the assertion that I was given a juicy committee to stop fighting the Senate president is rubbish, am I not entitled to a committee? I am even more qualified to head committees by our rules, I am a ranking senator, I was the vice chairman of the Petroleum Upstream Committee in the 7th Senate for four years, it is my turn to become the chairman now.
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“It is only about 30 senators that made it back to the senate in the 8th assembly and I am one of them. So by the senate rules, I am entitled to any committee, I am not saying my colleagues are not qualified, but by the rules, I am qualified to head any committee.
“So I fought because my party said this is the direction and when the party said stop I stopped. A letter was written by the party saying give unity forum this and that, and that was how Ahmed Lawan became the Senate Leader, and that was how my own committee was changed and besides, do people want me to remain irrelevant in the senate because I am defending APC?”
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that Senator Garba Marafa (APC Zamfara Central) categorically said that he was richer than Aliko Dangote, the Africa’s richest man.
Marafa said: ''I’m extremely rich because to me richness is in the mind.''
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