The All Progressives Congress
(APC) on Thursday declared that Senator Bukola Saraki should not be Nigeria’s
Senate President.
This was contained in a statement
on Thursday afternoon by Yekini Nabena, APC National Publicity
Secretary.
He claimed that Saraki has been
indicted for corruption and funding of robbers as such should not be holding a
sensitive position.
The statement reads: “In every
democratic country, the position of the Senate President is one of the highest
political offices one can attain. It is a position reserved for the best of the
best, experienced and exemplary politicians who by their character and conduct
in public offices, the younger generation look up to as role models.
“In terms of exemplary personage,
the reverse is the case in respect of the current Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki who has been a dismal failure and has been involved in one controversy
or the other – budget padding, filibustering, legislative rascality, sabotage
of matters of national interest, among other criminalities too numerous to
mention.
“Having suffered under the
16-year misrule of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Saraki will go down
in our country’s history as the worst Senate President Nigeria has had the
misfortune to have.
“Since his usurpation of the
coveted seat, achieved through a wicked conspiracy with members of the
opposition PDP, it has been from one controversy to another – the Code of
Conduct trial for false declaration of assets; conspiracy with his deputy to
fraudulently alter the rules of the Senate and links to the deadly armed
robbers who wasted many lives in the Offa robbery attack.
“It is alleged that some of the
robbery suspects were his political thugs used to rig elections; a common adage
says: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.
“Dr. Saraki is definitely not our
good example for political leadership.
“All over the world, the
leadership of the legislature is provided by the political party with majority
members. But Dr. Saraki would in the absence of many members of his former
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), connive and conspire with members
of the opposition PDP to emerge Senate President, and in the process tradeoff
the Deputy Senate President position to the opposition PDP – a political
betrayal and treachery even the devil would be envious of.
“Even at this time he has
defected to the opposition PDP, and with APC still in the majority in the
Senate, Dr. Saraki still has the impudence to present himself as the Senate
President. Political ambition should be made of nobler stuff.
“One is of course not surprised
as Dr. Saraki’s greed, selfishness, treachery, disregard for protocol and
constituted authority is well-reported. In terms of treachery, Dr. Saraki’s
public humiliation of his late father and sister comes readily to mind.
“A traitor will always be a
traitor, however the time and place. The Senate must do everything possible to
put Dr. Saraki where he rightly belongs – the back seat. He is definitely not a
fit and proper person to preside over the country’s upper and revered
legislative house.
“A man who betrayed his father,
sister (many times), his party PDP in 2014, the APC in 2015 by conspiring with
opposition PDP senators to emerge Senate President, APC administration by
sabotaging the executive and defecting to the PDP in 2018 has no character,
principles, values and integrity. His only interest is Bukola Saraki, Bukola
Saraki and Bukola Saraki.
“The question is not IF he will
defect again from PDP if Bukola Saraki’s interest is not served, but WHEN he
will do so. Such mean men are not interested in the Nigeria of our dreams.”
In a sane society, Saraki would have resigned his position. If he has any dignity left in him to preserve, he would.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately, nearly all our so called leaders have no integrity.
There are so many cases around UK, USA etc where ministers, political aspirants, and even pastors stepping down just because of a dent on their personality
APC are just speaking from their anus,so because Saraki did not want to be part of your APC caucus again is now the most devilish politician in Nigeria, Buhari and his party are just planning game that they cannot win, there many corrupt people in APC government which everyone know so swallow your spite back pls
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