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http://ift.tt/2obY8UV The Senate during a plenary The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has reaffirmed Senate’s commitment to delivering a holistic legislative reform in the country. He said at a special session to mark the second anniversary of the 8th Senate on Friday in Abuja that the activities of the upper chamber had been rough, the lawmakers had remained undaunted. Saraki told the senators that “together, we have walked through the turbulence and in the last two years shown that with determination and courage of conviction we can get the job done. “I am here to tell you that your sacrifices have not been in vain. “Your steadfastness has paid dividend and if we keep at it, we will be delivering very soon to the Nigerian people a holistic legislative reform package that would see us enter a new era of prosperity.’’ “The reform will be built upon a solid legal foundation that will transform our economy, deepen our democracy, close our infrastructure deficit, ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has condemned the directive to state chapters to choose platforms for members contesting imminent elections across the country. National Caretaker Committee of the party had in a statement on Tuesday said that states’ chapters of PDP were free to cosider platforms appropriate for members to contest pending elections “in the meantime’’. A statement issued by the committee’s Publicity Secretary, Mr Dayo Adeyeye, explained that the decision was to avoid a repeat of Edo and Ondo gubernatorial polls experience to the party. It said that Sheriff and his co-travellers scuttled the chances of PDP members in elections in both states by fielding separate candidates for the party. It stated that it was to avoid a repeat of such scenario that it decided to advise the party chapters in the state on the elections. “In the circumstances and with no hope of the Sheriff problem abating before pending ...