Lagos West District senator-elect, Dr Idiat Adebule, on Tuesday received her Certificate of Return alongside other elected senators from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
INEC National Commissioner, Sam Olumekun, presented the certificate to Adebule at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Abuja.
The former Lagos State deputy governor was accompanied by her husband, Alhaji Saheed Adebule.
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Also, Tuesday, the Ogun Central District senator-elect, Alhaji Shuaib Salisu; his Oyo Central District counterpart, Dr Yunus Akintunde; Adeola Solomon (Ogun West) and Tokunbo Abiru (Lagos East) joined others to receive their certificates.
Adebule urged her fellow elected senators to make the common man the centre of governance.
She said: “We should pay attention to what they need and see how to make the society work for the coming man. Those are the things we intend to go and pursue in this 10th Senate.
“We also plan to get feedback from the people. We let that be the basis of what we are going to do when we get to the Senate. Constant feedback from them should determine bills to be presented and improved upon.
Everything that would make life easier for Nigerians should be our major concern.”
Salisu agreed with Adebule that the 10th Senate should focus more on Nigerians.
He said: “We should make laws and interventions that will uplift the masses. All our actions should be centred on the people. We have to provide a very robust oversight function over the executive as assigned to us by the constitution.”
The government, he said, needed to assuage the youths’ anger with good policies.
He said: “The government should be able to address very holistically the challenges facing the Nigerian youths. They have become desperate and we don’t need to make them flip over. When they flip over, it will be very difficult to manage.
“Most of the things we shall do will be how to accommodate our youths and impact positively on their careers and future because when they become restive, the centre will no longer hold. The way things are enough to teach all of us lessons. We have to tread cautiously as regards the policies that the government will formulate.”
