By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke

ABUJA- SOME Senators have hailed the reconciliatory moves by Senate President Bukola Saraki especially with the way and manner he constituted the committees in the Senate with membership cutting across all divide irrespective of the seeming crisis in the upper chamber.

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The Senators particularly praised the Senate President’s large heartedness in giving the chairmanship of one of the two influential committees that he has constituted so far to a member of the Unity Forum.

Senator Aliyu Abdullahi, Niger North District, who commended Senator   Saraki for his broad-mindedness and the non-partisan approach he has adopted in constituting the committees, said it took a peace-loving, patriotic and large-hearted leader like Saraki to continue to make reconciliatory moves aimed at harmonising all the tendencies in the legislative chamber.

Senator Jide Omoworare from Osun East, a member of the Unity Forum was last Wednesday named the chairman of the powerful Committee on Rules and Business. Also, Senator Kabiru Marafa, the spokesman of the group, was named a member of the same committee.

Abdullahi said,   “the Rules and Business Committee is the engine room of the Senate that directs the activities of the legislative house. That position given to Omoworare is so influential that it is next to being in the leadership of the Senate.”

Also speaking on the peace moves being made by the Senate President, Senator Peter Nwaboshi, Delta North, stressed that the Senate President was spreading the olive branch to those who are aggrieved by the events surrounding the emergence of the leadership of the Senate, adding, “I am indeed thrilled by the Senate President’s decision to fully reconcile the entire Senate. He is really reaching out to all and sundry and trying to carry everybody along. I think he is the right man for the job now. That is why he is being broadminded in his choice of committee members.”

According to him, the   choice of Senator Barnabas Gemade as the chairman of the Adhoc Committee   on review of state of the roads and areas suffering environmental degradation despite his being the  henchman of the Unity Forum, also shows that the Senate President wants all hands on deck in the plan to make the current Senate achieve its objective of serving the people. Senator Gemade was a former minister   of works, a position which placed him in good stead for the assignment.

For Senator Lanre Tejuosho from Ogun Central, he said Saraki deserves praises for laying emphasis on merit and ability in choosing which Senator serves in which committee or handles what assignment.