Former Senate President, Senator Ameh Ebute, has been nominated as the National Leader of National Assembly Senators and Hon Members Forum.
The national co-coordinator of the Forum, Barr. Tony Mike Akpan, made the nomination known via a statement issued and made available to The Star on Tuesday.
He noted that Senator Ebute, being the most senior Senate President in Nigeria currently, was nominated to replace Senator Joseph Wayas, who died recently in a hospital in London, United Kingdom.
Sen. Ebute, the Senate President in the Third Republic, while responding to the nomination letter which was conveyed to him after a recent meeting by the members of the Forum in Abuja, said his choice as the new national leader of legislative association was another call to service, noting that the Forum represents all the nation’s federal legislators from 1957 till date.
Senator Ebute further appreciated his call to service through the Forum “because it’s another means of deepening the gains of democratic governance in Nigeria as membership cuts across all the 36 states of the federation including Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.”
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According to the former Senate President, while the Forum has always stood for the deepening of democracy, entrenchment of an enduring democratic tradition and genuine dividends of democracy to the citizens, “our mission and vision is to ensure that a former and present Senator and Hon member emerges the President of Nigeria in 2023.”
While noting that the Forum would have its next national meeting soon in Abuja, Senator Ebute, called on both former and serving federal legislators of the National Assembly to support the Forum, “particularly in its mission and vision to make sure that one of them emerges Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in 2023.”
The Forum, which had late elder statesman Alhaji Maitama Sule and late former Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas as founding fathers, has former and present Senators and House of Representatives members of the 36 states of the federation, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
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