The Senate at its plenary of Wednesday, 14 June 2017 responded to the recent clamor for ethnical disintegration and a separation agenda by calling for unity and peaceful co-existence in Nigeria instead.
Presenting the motion titled “The need for National Unity and Peaceful Co-existence in Nigeria” on behalf of all Senators, Senate Leader, Sen. Ahmad Lawan (APC: Yobe) expressed great concern over the recent threat to national unity stating that it negated years of affirmative policies intended to achieve national integration.
Sen. Lawan condemned the plans initiated by some citizens aimed at creating communal, religious and ethnical strife and urged Nigerians to desist from engaging in acts and utterances capable of jeopardizing the existence of the Country. Sen. Barnabas Gemade (APC: Benue), Sen. Godswill Akpabio (PDP: Akwa Ibom), Sen. Abiosun Olujimi (PDP: Ekiti); Sen. Binta Masi Garba (APC: Adamawa), and Sen. Oluremi Tinubu (APC: Lagos) also spoke in support of the notion restating this view.
The Senate resolved to ensure that Members from the agitated regions intensify their representative role by embarking on a sensitization campaign in their various constituencies to highlight the importance of harmonious and peaceful co-existence. It further resolved to call on the Federal Government to urgently consider the recommendations in the National Conference report submitted to former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014.
