Former Senate President Ameh Ebute has been nominated as the National Leader of the National Assembly Senators and Members’ Forum.
In a statement by Chief Tony Mike Akpan, the National Coordinator of the Forum said Senator Ebute was nominated to replace the late Senator Joseph Wayas. Ebute is currently the most senior Senate President in Nigeria.
Responding to the nomination letter which was conveyed to him after a recent meeting by the executive members of the forum in Abuja, the Senate President in the Third Republic said his choice as the new national leader of the legislative association is another call to serve as the Forum represents all the country’s federal legislators from 1957 till date.
Senator Ebute also stated that he appreciates his call to service through the Forum because it’s another means of deepening the gains of democratic governance in Nigeria as membership cuts across all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
According to Senator Ebute, while the Forum has always stood for the deepening of democracy, the entrenchment of an enduring democratic tradition and genuine dividends of democracy to the Nigerian people, “our mission and vision is to ensure that a former and present Senator and member emerges the President of Nigeria in 2023.
The Forum, which had the late elder statesman Alhaji Maitama Sule and the late former Senate President, Dr Joseph Wayas as founding fathers, has influential former and present Senators and members of the National Assembly in 36 states, Abuja, FCT and 774 local government areas of Nigeria.
Senator Ebute noted that the Forum will have its next national meeting soon in Abuja. He, therefore, called on former and serving federal legislators of the National Assembly to support the Forum, particularly in its mission and vision to ensure that one of them emerges Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in 2023.