The deputy spokesman of the Area of Representatives, Philip Agbese, has counseled President Bola Tinubu for heeding the request of the Area to carry the nationwide celebrate of the Commander of the Federal Republic, previous bestowed at the Speaker, Tajudeen Abbas to the Magnificent Commander of the Layout of the Niger.
Tinubu, in his national broadcast on Nigeria’s sixty fourth self government per annum on Tuesday, conferred nationwide honours on important Nigerians, together with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, Speaker Abbas and Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu, amongst others.
Era thanking the President all the way through a plenary consultation for the celebrate, Agbese, by way of a movement of pressing crowd significance, drew the eye of his colleagues to the discriminatory remedy meted out to the Speaker, noting that the Area used to be no longer not as good as the Senate.
Agbese, in his argument, famous that life the Speaker, who ranks 4th within the layout of protocol, used to be awarded a CFR, the Leading of Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, ranked fifth used to be accorded the next celebrate of GCON.
Lawmakers elected on other political birthday celebration platforms counseled the Benue legislator and appealed to President Tinubu to revisit the historic antecedent and proper the fallacious.
On Friday, the President, in a remark signed by means of his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, introduced that Speaker Abbas have been honoured with the GCON celebrate.
In a phone interview with PUNCH On-line on Saturday, Agbese pleaded with President Tinubu to in a similar way improve Kalu’s Commander of the Layout of the Niger to the Commander of the Federal Republic.
He mentioned, “What our chief, the President and the Commander-in-Leading has performed has obviously proven that he’s a listening chief. We’re elated that he listened to us and corrected the historic misstep by means of giving the Place of work of the Speaker the glory it merits.
“Only some days in the past, we pleaded with His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR to revisit the historic anomaly, and he has performed the destitute. We’re thankful.
“On the other hand, we’re similarly asking that the CON previous conferred at the Deputy Speaker, Rt Hon Benjamin Kalu will have to be upgraded to CFR.
“Come to think about it, the Deputy Senate President bagged a CFR. It is just logical that his counterpart within the Home is accorded the similar situation.
“Like we argued last week, this is not about the person but about institutions. We are doing this for history, for posterity. We know that Mr President will do it again.”