Only God gives power — Ekweremadu

Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has

urged detractors of the Senate to leave the institution alone to work, saying it was only God that gives power. He said: “I am proud of our accomplishment as a Senate. On June 9, 2015, as I look back now, there are a number of our colleagues who were not here, but today everybody is here. “We were divided along the lines of Unity Forum, Like Minds and Non-aligned, but today we are united as one indivisible Senate, working for the progress of our nation. We can only remain patriotic. Our parties may differ, but we have one country and we have one constituency which is Nigeria.” Also speaking, Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, who hailed the mutual trust and understanding of lawmakers, stressed that unlike in the past, senators have shown maturity and had been able to put their differences aside. “I want to add and commend the mutual respect and relationship that exist between the opposition and the ruling or governing party. In fact, your maturity level has gone to an extent that you rightly behave as minorities instead of opposition for democracy. “That is very commendable. Their number is so much as the Senate President says that he can be intimidated.” Also, Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye, urged senators to put the past behind them and proffer solutions to the myriads of problems bedeviling the country. He said: “Some things have not gone right in the last one year. If we say we have no sin, we lie and the truth is not in us. We need to tell ourselves the truth. We need to put our pasts behind us and work together. “No matter the political party we belong to, the country is in turmoil. The economy is in a bad shape; insecurity is very high; unemployment is unimaginable. The next one year must not be like the last one year. We must make a difference.”