The Senate dedicated Tuesday’s plenary to discuss the rising insecurity in different parts of the country, Premium Times has reported.
Many senators, over 15 of them, contributed to the motion on the activities of Boko Haram terrorists in three local governments of Niger State.
Kogi senator, Smart Adeyemi, was one of the contributors. A seemingly emotional Mr Adeyemi, who spoke for over five minutes, described the current state of insecurity in Nigeria as the worst so far.
But his colleague, Oluremi Tinubu, who belongs to the same political party, All Progressives Congress (APC) as Mr Adeyemi, seemed disgusted by his comments.
Mrs Tinubu who was sitting next to Mr Adeyemi during his contribution was heard chiding the latter.
“This is the worst instability we are facing. In fact, this is worse than the civil war,” Mr Adeyemi said.
“Are you in PDP? Are you a wolf in sheep’s clothing?,” Mrs Tinubu said rebuking the lawmaker.
Ignoring his colleague, Mr Adeyemi said there are a lot of misgivings, a lot of misinterpretation of what is happening.
“Some people believe that some people in government are supporting this move. We cannot pretend that we are capable of handling the situation in our hands. America, as powerful as they are, when the pandemic came, it came to a point China came to their rescue.
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