Rufai Oseni calls out Labour Party NASS members for accepting brand new SUVs

Arise Television co-host, Rufai Oseni believes the representatives of the Labour Party in the National Assembly must be called out for accepting the purchase of new official SUVs for each member for official use.

Rufai in a tweet said the Senators and House of Representatives must be called out or nothing will change in Nigeria.

His call comes after the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, had called on members elected on the platform of the Labour Party not to partake in the “profligate spending,” which he described as “insensitive and wasteful.”

Abure said such spending did not align with the ideology of the Labour Party, which prides itself as a pro-people party.

"If the LP lawmakers rode on the wave of Labour and the welfare of the people collecting the official car is really insensitive. Except we call them out beyond partisanship nothing will change in Nigeria," Rufai Oseni wrote on X.

Members of both arms of the National Assembly, Senate and House of Representatives have started receiving their brand new 2023 model Toyota Land Cruisers worth over N100 million each.

It was learned that female lawmakers were top priority in the distribution of the vehicles, as 12 of them have taken possession of their cars, while principal officers of the two chambers are billed to be the last to take possession of theirs.

Meanwhile, a Labour Party lawmaker in the Senate, Senator Neda Imasuen, has said it is unfair for Nigerians to criticize Labour Party lawmakers for not rejecting the plan by the National Assembly to buy Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) allegedly worth N160 million (US$370,000) for each lawmaker.

Speaking in defence of the party's representatives, Imasuen, who is also the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, said the Labour Party has only eight senators and cannot sway the majority of lawmakers from backing down on the plan to buy luxury vehicles.

If the LP lawmakers rode on the wave on Labour and welfare of the people collecting the official car is really insensitive. Except we call them out beyond partanship nothing wil change in Nigeria.

— oseni rufai (@ruffydfire) November 7, 2023