After the Senate plenary section of Thursday 22 October, 2015; it was gathered that the PDP Senators held a closed door meeting to decide on the next line of action, over the screening of the former Rivers State Governor - Rotimi Amaechi by the Nigerian Senate.
Information gathered from the meeting is that; their decision is to oppose Amaechi's ministerial confirmation next week. It was also reported from our sources that a PDP elected Senator from the South South said:
"Amaechi has only being screened in fragrant abuse of our rules but he has not been confirmed... We will raise our voices to oppose his confirmation because his screening cannot pass due diligence test".
He further added that;
"...even if the Senate President does not mention the reports of the Ethics and Privileges Committee of the Nigerian Senate, whenever Amaechi's confirmation comes up, we are going to raise the issue of the report and the consideration of the report because we have a right to be heard."
Our Sources gathered that the reports of the Ethics & Privileges Committee of the Nigerian Senate was presented by the Chairman of the Committee to the Senate President few minutes before Amaechi was ushered into the Senate Chambers for Ministerial screening. The reports of the committee were said to have recommended that; Amaechi should be advised to go and clear himself since issues of the petitions against him are in court.
It was gathered that the issue of Amaechi's screening was discussed at a closed door meeting which the Senate held before the Plenary session of Thursday. A reliable source in the Senate was reported to have said that the Senators agreed that; it would be the consensus that Amaechi should be advised to go and clear himself of allegations of fraud, according to the recommendations of the Senate Ethics and Privileges Committee.
The PDP Senators in the opposition were reported to have accused the Senate President Bukola Saraki of breaching the Senate rules over Amaechi's screening.
However, an APC Senator has dismissed these moves that is being reported to have being made by the PDP Senators. As reported from our sources, the APC Senator said:
"...Even if we go for a division of the house, do they have the number to stop the confirmation of any nominee?"
"Politics remains a game of number and as it is today, the APC has the ace in the Senate and nobody can take that away from us. PDP Senators or the party itself cannot stop the confirmation of any nominee because they remain the opposition in the Chamber."
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