War in the Senate over confirmation of Bode George’s wife as NPC board member

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Thursday, November 17th, 2011

It was a robust debate
at the Senate, on
Wednesday, before the confirmation of Mrs Roli Bode-George as a member of the National Population Commission (NPC) following her nomination by President Goodluck Jonathan.
Her confirmation also led to war of words between members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as they engaged in survival arguments.
The arguments started immediately after Senator Maina Lawan, chairman of the Committee on National Identity Card and National Population announced that the committee received a petition from three senators from Lagos State kicking against her nomination.
All the three senators representing Lagos State rejected her nomination on the grounds of incompetence and that she is not an indigene of the state.
Lawan said that in the petition, the senators said the nominee was not from Lagos State and attached a letter written by the governor of Lagos State to President Goodluck Jonathan asking him to nominate someone else.
But the committee, while presenting its report, disclosed that after a careful consideration, it concluded that the nominee was from Lagos State based on her marriage to someone from Lagos State.wp_posts