Saraki should step down, Nigerians won’t Respect Bills From the Senate under his leadership – Gbagi

A previous Minister of State for Education, Chief Kenneth Gbagi, has approached the Senate’s President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to step down. He said the Senate’s trial president by the Code of Conduct Tribunal has put a question mark on his respectability to lead the upper legislate chamber.

Gbagi said with what is going ahead, there was no chance Nigerians and the worldwide group would regard movements and bills that would exude from the Senate under the authority of Saraki. The previous minister spoke with a few writers in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said the trial of Saraki by the CCT was sufficient purpose behind the previous legislative head of Kwara State to step  down and permit someone else mount the seat of leadership of the Senate.

He said,
“We have a problem in Nigeria where we don’t have people of honor, dignity and integrity as leaders.

“The mere fact that the Senate President is undergoing criminal trial is an indication that he has no business being a Senate president living with tax payers’ money.  “First, Nigerians will not have faith in anything that comes out of his Senate that is chaired or presented by that kind of person.

“Again, the entire international community will not believe in the passage of any Bill or motion under his leadership. “So if you ask me, that is the end of him. He is gone. And like several other government where you think you get in and it will be business as usual, it is not true.”

He lamented that Saraki would not learn from advanced countries  where somebody like him, who is experiencing such trial, would have resigned from office.  He said this was a reason why nations like the United State of America is as yet being respected.