Senate Presidency aspirant, Ahmed Lawan has defended the 13.5 million naira monthly salary being paid to each of the 109 senators in the country, saying that the major component of the amount was for oversight assignment allowances.
Ahmad Lawan, who has the endorsement of the Presidency and the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC to become the President of the 9th Senate, spoke to journalists in Abuja.
He maintained that there would be no reduction of the amount if he becomes the next Senate President.
The lawmaker also reflected on Friday’s Supreme Court judgment which sacked three APC senators-elect from Zamfara State, describing it as a setback.
According to him, there is nothing like jumbo pay for senators since each of them goes home with about 1 million naira a month and allowances for oversight functions, some of them outside the country.
The Yobe Senator, who remains the longest-serving lawmaker from the North in the Senate so far, also described himself as a ‘Buhari man’, who would always support all good policies and programmes initiated by the administration for the overall good of Nigerians.
