Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan exchanging pleasantries during a solidarity visit to the former on Thursday night after his release from the Kuje correctional facility, Abuja President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday explained why the Senate refused to yield to pressure to declare Senator Orji Uzor Kalu’s s seat vacant during the period of his incarceration.
He said what the Senate did by preserving Kalu’s seat and his position was not extra-ordinary but the right and just thing to do. The Senate Chief Whip was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in December 2019 for fraud committed while he was Abia State Governor between 1999 and 2007. Lawan said, “There was no way anybody could convince us in the Senate that somebody should take the Abia North Seat because it wasn’t vacant.
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