The face-off has been on since Friday when Murray-Bruce asked President Muhammadu Buhari to give credit to former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, for the coaches he commissioned on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line.
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The face-off between the two men, on Twitter, started on Friday when Murray-Bruce asked President Muhammadu Buhari to give credit to former President Goodluck Jonathan for the project.
The senator made his position known on Sunday on Twitter, few hours after Abubakar announced he has formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party
In his rush to judgment, Alhaji Yakassai said inter alia: “I thought, as a politician that he (Atiku) is, that he has read our constitution from A-Z before suggesting that we can restructure in six months. My question here is, what are the details of the budgetary provisions for the Ministry of Works that should be transferred to the states’ ministries of education and so on and so forth before he made his pronouncement that these could be done within six months?…We already have a budget approved by the National Assembly as empowered by the constitution for appropriation.”
PINE, according to its mandate, is to oversee the reconstruction and rehabilitation of communities destroyed by Boko Haram in the North East
While Adeyeye said the stoppage of Murray-Bruce was as a result of protocol and the rowdiness that attended the situation at the specific period, Sani said he, like several other senators, was not prevented from having access to President Buhari
This was said to have happened at the dinner the President hosted for members of the National Assembly at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja
Bruce, the representative of Bayelsa East Senatorial District, reacting to the announcement on his Twitter handle, said he was at a loss as to the calculation used in the new template
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce: Representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, Murray-Bruch is commonly known and recognized on Social Media as the man who speaks about Common Sense approaches to dealing with many of Nigeria’s problems. This first time Senate has also contributed severally to Motions, Bills and other matters of the 8th Senate
The senator, who confirmed that the Senate would on Tuesday begin the screening of the first batch of ministerial nominees sent to it last week by Buhari, noted that the legislature had no issues with the persons of the nominees
Reacting to the statement credited to Murray-Bruce on Wednesday, Okanlawon said: “My attention has been drawn to a tweet by a member of Upper chamber of the National Assembly Senator Ben Murray Bruce of the Peoples Democratic Party from Bayelsa saying he will not reject the alleged hefty pay for members of the National Assembly but collect it and donate to Osun workers
However Senator Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa West) lost his re-election bid to the upper legislative chamber to Foster Ogola, the immediate past chairman of the Bayelsa State Scholarship Board
Murray-Bruce has expressed interest in running for the Bayelsa East Senatorial seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
The members of the Boards include prominent broadcaster, Ben Murray Bruce; a former Deputy Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Salmot Badru; and awards winning journalist, Funke Egbemode