Lawan appoints Aide as Chairman, National Assembly Service Commission

Facts have emerged that newly-appointed Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission, Ahmed Kadi Amshi, was aide to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, in the 8th Senate.
This coming two months after Lawan was accused by Senators of hijacking Federal Inland Revenue Services employment slots meant for the 109 senators for his constituency members.
Lawan did not debunk the allegation that was also confirmed by his constituents on a Facebook Page.
The newly-appointed NASC chairman hails from the same Bade Local Government Area of Yobe State as the Senate President.
Many in the upper chamber have condemned his appointment, describing it as lopsided based on the composition of the leadership of the National Assembly and against the country’s crucial Federal Character principle.
Amshi replaced Mallam Adamu Fika, who was also an indigene of Yobe State.
This, however, was contrary to what obtained when Senator Bukola Saraki was President of the Senate.
Before he left office as Senate President, Saraki had appointed Senator Joy Emordi from Anambra State as chairman-designate, but Lawan, upon assumption of office, jettisoned the appointments made by Saraki and refused to submit their names for ratification to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The nominations as proposed by the Saraki-led leadership of the eighth National Assembly had Emordi from the South East as Chairman, with 11 others as members.
They included Nuhu Musa (Jigawa), Bilyaminu Shinkafi (Kebbi), Femi Agge (Edo), Uthman Taofeek (Lagos), Adenekan Olateru-Olagbegi (Ondo) and Abdulazeez Usman (Kwara).
On the proposed list also were Awalu Aliyu Ohindese (Kogi), Henry Adagba (Ebonyi), Rufus Omeire (Imo), Bilyamini Bunbot (Bauchi) and Ahmed Ashemi (Borno).
But controversy broke out after Lawan read out a list of new members of the commission, with Emordi replaced by Amshi.
In the list sent to the National Assembly by President Buhari following the recommendations by the Lawan leadership, the Federal Character principle observed in the Saraki appointments was largely jettisoned.
In the letter to the National Assembly, the President said: “Further to your letters (NASS/9th/S/SP/PRE/1/NASC/06/ 11/19 dated November 6, 2019 and NASS/9tg/S/SP/PRE/1/NASC/25/ 11/19 dated 25th November, 2019, I write to convey my approval of your nominations for the appointments of Chairman and Commissioners of the National Assembly Service Commission as follows:
“Engr. Ahmed Kadi Amshi, Chairman (Yobe, North East); Babagana Modu, Member (Borno, North East); Abubakar Tutare (Taraba, North East); Hakeem Akamo (Lagos, South West); Tunrayo Akintomide (Ondo, South West); Atanomeyorwi Francis (Delta, South South).
“Others are Bassey Etuk (Akwa-Ibom); Bailyaminu Yusuf Shinkafi (Zamfara, North West); Sani Saidu Kazaure (Jigawa, North West); Julius Ucha (Ebonyi, South East); Nnamdi Anyaechie (Imo, South East); Auwalu Aliyu Ohindase (Kogi, North Central); and Muazu Is’haq (Nasarawa, North Central).”