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Chairman Senate committee on federal character and inter-government affairs, Senator Dahiru Awaisu Kuta in a recent interview said that, the senate is not a retirement place for former governors.
According to DAILY TRUST, when asked about the current trend where governors now go to the Senate after their tenure, Kuta said "The Senate is not like that, once you are in the Senate you don’t bring the office of the governor into the Senate, you come into the Senate as an ordinary senator like any other person. That you have been a governor for two terms does not mean that you can’t be vibrant even after retirement".
"If you are talking about governors who are just below 50 years they still have a lot to offer in the legislative arm, there is nothing wrong with that. There are some of us who are already 65 years old we are still here in the Senate. But you can’t stop those who are just coming in and they have age on their side".
"Senate is not a retiring ground, Senate is for vibrancy, for robust discussions and anybody you see in the Senate is somebody who has qualified to be there but I think one of the fears is that some outgoing governors are in the habit of imposing themselves because of the types of resources they have, but I think people are becoming more and more politically aware and there is a point money cannot reach in this country".
"You can have all the money in this world and you will still not make it. And the moment you are in the Senate you don’t bring governorship into the Senate, it won’t work at all because the Senate president was once a governor, a minister who has seen it all in this world and no former governor can intimidate the Senate President. So when they come in we just see them as ordinary Senators, it’s like secondary school we have class one to six and when you come, you start from class one, we don’t regard any former governor as former governor but a junior senator who also has to come of age, so it is not a retiring ground at all",Kuka added.