15 Reps to colleagues: You are interlopers by meddling in Senate affairs

Fifteen members of the House of Representatives on Sunday faulted their colleagues for their comments on the crisis rocking the Senate.
They said the members of the House meddling in their affairs of the Senate were interlopers.
The Reps were reacting to the comments credited to some members of the House over the face-off between the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, and Senator Kabiru Marafa.
Marafa had in the last few weeks engaged Saraki in a running battle, with the latest being his accusation that the non-passage of the 2016 Budget was due to the ongoing trial of the Senate president by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
Some members of the House of Representatives lambasted Marafa for his comments on Saraki, which they said impugned on the integrity of the National Assembly.
However, 15 members of the House on Sunday said the Reps had no business meddling in the affairs of the Senate.
They wrote in a statement: “It must be made clear to the legislators who are mostly new members that the two Houses of the National Assembly are Independent and Separate and by getting involved in the internal crisis of the Senate shows them to be busybodies and interlopers who know nothing about the running of a bicameral legislature.
“We advise our colleagues to mind their own business and face the peoples work for which they were elected to do.
“Since we are all entitled to our opinion, we agree with Senator Marafa that the budget distortions became a political tool in the hands of some legislators and their agenda was to use it for political negotiation.
“We wonder where these legislators were when former President made his own public opinion and tirade recently.
“It is even more shocking that they were so quick to do the bidding of whoever their paymaster is that they moved even faster than the senate ethics committee set up to investigate the matter.”
Those who signed the statement were John Dyegh, Lawal Gumau, Ahmad Kaita, Agunsoye Rotimi, Ali Madaki, Aminu Malle, Nazir Daura, Muhammed Soba, Ismail Gadaka, Abdulrahman Shuaibu, Sunday Adepoju, Adekunle Akinlade, Ajibola Famurewa, Abdulmahmud Gaiya and Musa Adar.