- Former Governor Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe says he will remain a senator representing a part of the state till death
- Ibrahim served as governor three times and is currently serving the third term as a senator
- He is believed to be sending a message to the incumbent governor of the state who may be eyeing the Senate in 2019
Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, a former governor of Yobe state, has declared that he will remain a senator for life.
Ibrahim, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), served as Yobe governor three times between January and November 1992 and between May 29, 1999 and May, 29, 2007, before joining the Senate.
He was re-elected to the Senate in 2011 and again for a third term in 2015 and is currently the chairman of the committee on ecology and climate change.
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Ibrahim’s wife also served three terms at the House of Representatives before becoming a minister under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Daily Trust reports that the senator may have made the declaration to ward off those who may be eyeing the senate in 2019 including current Yobe governor, Ibrahim Geidam, who is currently ending his second term in office.
The report said while he spoke on the 57th Independence anniversary of Nigeria, Ibrahim vowed that only death would take him out of the Senate.
Bukar, who would be 68 on October 1, said: “We are very grateful to God and to all Nigerians. Let me categorically say, Mr Senate President, that I will stay in the Senate until death do us part.
“Everybody tells me that I’m senator for life. I’m going to be in the Senate for life...”
In his response, Senate president, Bukola Saraki, was said to have jokingly asked the Ahmad Lawan, the leader of the upper chamber, and Mohammad Hassan, both from Yobe state, to take note.
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A lawmaker, whose name was not given, reportedly said: “He (Ibrahim) made the statement because Yobe state governor is planning to come to the Senate on the expiration of his second tenure in 2019.”
NAIJ.com reported months ago the scandal that rocked Senator Ibrahim's affair after an online medium revealed he was caught in a hotel with two ladies.
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Source: Naij.com
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Friday, 29 September 2017