Some Senators elected on the platform of minority political parties have raised alarm over alleged plot by "forces inside and outside the Senate to divide the minority parties and foist a pliant and compromised leadership on them."
The minority lawmakers raised the alarm in a statement released on Saturday, June 24, 2023, and jointly signed by Senators Mohammed Adamu Aliero, Henry Seriake Dickson, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Abdul Ningi, Patrick Abba Moro, Onyebuchi Francis Ezenwa, Sumaila Kawu, and Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah.
They said the minority senators had agreed to work with "the new Senate leadership and the Executive branch to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people." But, however, warned that "they should not aid any group inside or outside the Senate to divide and destabilise the minority parties and the Senate institution."
The statement partly read, "Senators of the minority Parties would meet when the Senate reconvenes and, in consultation with our respective political parties, would select its leaders without undue interference from anti democratic forces within or outside the Senate.
"For the avoidance of doubt, no Senator has yet been endorsed or selected for any Minority position as this would await due process as agreed by all Minority Parties in their last meeting.
"Attempt to foist a one party dictatorship would be resisted and would fail.
"We call on all members of the Minority Political Parties to work together in unity to defend the democratic institution of the Senate and Nigeria."
