President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Saturday stated the Nationwide Meeting will make a case for official roles for the standard rulers within the ongoing evaluate of the Nigerian structure.
Lawan spoke on the Palace of Emir of Ilorin, HRH Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari whereas on a courtesy go to.
The Senate President was in Kwara primarily to attend the launch of the 2022 Empowerment Programme of Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar who’s representing Kwara North Senatorial District within the Ninth Senate.
Lawan was accompanied to the palace by the Governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, and 6 distinguished senators who travelled with him from Abuja.
The Senators are Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (Senate Deputy Chief Whip), Bello Mandiya, Yakubu Oseni, Ibrahim Oloriegbe, Lola Ashiru and Sensible Adeyemi.
The Senate President stated the ninth Nationwide Meeting believed that the roles now being performed by conventional rulers must be accorded recognition within the Structure in order that they might play the roles even higher.
“We imagine, within the ninth Nationwide Meeting, that our Royal Fathers should have a task and a greater and clearly official function and performance in our structure in order that we’re capable of have an all-inclusive governance construction that can be certain that our Royal Fathers do what they’re doing as we speak in a extra official method.
“Within the northern a part of the nation notably and throughout the nation typically, the standard Establishments play a really key and vital function in stabilising our communities and our societies.
“We imagine that these roles have to be mirrored and correctly captured within the Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Thank God that we are actually engaged on the evaluate of our structure. By the Grace of God, the Nationwide Meeting will end its function of main within the evaluate of the structure by the top of this month and ship it to the States.
“The standard Establishments have at all times been there and they’re there longer than political Establishments…We face safety points. Insecurity is pervasive.
“Thank God, the Federal Authorities shouldn’t be stopping at something to revive normalcy. However the Federal Authorities and certainly all our safety companies throughout all of the tiers of presidency can not obtain the form of the specified end result with out residents’ participation and we imagine that to mobilise the residents, we want our conventional Establishments.
“That’s the place official participation of conventional Establishments in governance is essential and central. We’re going to push for that by the Grace of God. We wish to see it mirrored this time round and by the point that is achieved, our conventional Establishments will now carry out even higher the features they’re already performing,” Lawan stated.
Responding, Sulu-Gambari thanked the Senate President for the go to however informed his visitor that he and his conventional ruler colleagues had no intention to compete with any establishment.
He stated they weren’t asking for a legislative or judicial function however simply advisory features.
“What we ask for is advisory participation. We’re saying that there must be a Council of conventional rulers who might be sought to present recommendation and to participate in bringing sanity to the governance of this nation,” the Emir stated. Supply: DailyPost
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