Former Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday was screened by the Nigerian senate after being nominated for a ministerial position by President Muhammadu Buhari.
PDP Senators after the screening have spoken about the circumstances surrounding the Amaechi’s screening.
“We had opened Thursday’s sitting with a closed session, which lasted for 50 minutes to sort out knotty issues relating to the screening of Amaechi,” a PDP senator according to Punch said.
“During the closed session, Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, briefed us on the report and indicated that the committee reported that the issue regarding Amaechi’s petition was in court and that the Senate should suspend action on his screening, pending the resolution of the court issues.”
Another senator, who said a similar thing, said the PDP senators were surprised when the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the other APC senators started asking Amaechi questions.
The two and others alleged that all the senators at the closed session had agreed that the PDP senators would insist on not having anything to do with Amaechi, while their APC colleagues also agreed that they would only ask the nominee to only “take a bow and go.”
They said they were surprised seeing Saraki and other APC members asking Amaechi questions.
Amaechi is perceived to be notoriously corrupt and most people predicted a stormy session for him at the Red Chambers.
However the opposite was what transpired as the ex Rivers speaker underwent a smooth screening and wasn’t queried by senators from the opposition party, PDP, although he made some comments most people won’t agree with.
