Ahmed Lawan, the President of the Senate, has sworn-in four senators elected in this month’s bye-elections in Bayelsa, Lagos and Plateau States respectively.
They are Nora Daddung (APC, Plateau), Tokunbo Abiru (APC, Lagos), Seriake Dickson (PDP Bayelsa West) and Cleopass Moses (PDP, Bayelsa).
Speaking shortly after the new senators took their oaths of office and allegiance today, Lawan claimed that the members of 9th Senate were more patriotic that anyone or institution in Nigeria and would continue to do so.
“So far, in assessing ourselves, we have done fairly well as an assembly and the secret is unity of purpose. We believe that we have several challenges and our country needs us now more than it has ever needed us.
“We are faced with challenges but these are surmountable challenges if we remain united, focus and support each other,” he said.
He enjoined Nigerians to give the National Assembly and the legislature their utmost support, promising that the Senate will not do anything that will deliberately cause any problem in governance of the country.
Dickson said that the newly elected senators on the platforms of the ruling APC and the opposition PDP were assuming duties when a lot is needed to be done to deepen democracy in the next two and a half years in the life of the present dispensation.
“We have a nation to repair, we have a nation to unite, a nation to rebuild and no person or party can do it alone; all hands must be on deck,” he said.