9th Senate: Senator Moro laments ‘lame duck’ stigma, call for careful election of new leaders

Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Abba Moro has lamented that the 9th Senate was labelled ‘lame duck’ by those who felt they didn’t perform enough.

He called on Senators-elect, including the few returnees and new entrants to be united to carefully elect principal officers of the 10th Senate that understand the dynamics of time so that the upper legislative Chamber would perform optimally.

The lawmaker stated this in Abuja on Wednesday when the National Assembly New Media Forum paid him a Congratulatory visit to his office, stating that “both newly elected and those that are returning must come together to elect their principal officers.”

According to him, the task ahead was not easy as in past weeks, performance of the 9th Senate has been a subject of debate with “some calling us lame duck Senators and yes men.”

“We’ve been struggling to come out of that toga that will emerge in a greater national monumental crisis in all directions, be it political, economical and social.

On the just.concluded elections, Senator Moro said, it’s no longer news that so many Senators were swept away in what he described as political tsunami, stressing that he managed to survive it through God’s grace.

“I am grateful to God and the good people of Benue South Senatorial District for their love shown to me during the just concluded elections; they came in their numbers to support my re-election and God gave us victory”.

“I want to assure them that I’m not taking them for granted and I will continue to work for their interest and Nigerians in general”, he said.

Speaking on naira swap policy of the Central Bank, the lawmaker in the upper legislative Chamber lamented the hardship that Nigerians are passing through, noting that having laboured to get money into the bank, it eventually become difficult to access it.

He continued: “If you’re not dispensing people’s money to them, what are you working on Saturday and Sundays for? As I am speaking the old note is what is in circulation, so what is the need for the change that brings all these suffering?”.

According to him, “Nigerians deserve the best not what we are seeing right now. Nigerians are going through this harrowing experience without any definable direction and results, I think it’s not fair.

Senator Abba Moro assured Nigerians that the incoming government will be careful to solve many of these problems, if only we take our time to choose our leaders.