The All Progressives Congress
(APC) says senators should reject Senate President Bukola Saraki just like
delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did at the weekend.
The national assembly will resume
Tuesday after more than seven weeks of recess.
During the recess, the APC
repeatedly called on Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of
representatives, to vacate their offices.
At the PDP convention to pick a
presidential candidate, Saraki polled 317 votes. Aminu Tambuwal, governor of
Sokoto, polled 693 votes to come second.
Former Vice-President Atiku
Abubakar polled 1,532 votes to emerge PDP presidential flag bearer.
In a statement, Yekini Nabena,
acting spokesman of the APC, said Saraki’s “disappointing” performance at the
convention is an end “to the ambition of a greedy, untrustworthy and
double-dealing politician”.
Nabena said as senate president,
Saraki has always been at loggerheads with the executive.
“The delegates of the PDP have
rejected Saraki as their presidential candidate. Let the Senators also do
likewise by rejecting the greedy, deceitful and unreliable Senate President as
their leader. A new President of the Senate, free from all allegations of
criminality is needed now,” the statement read.
“The disappointing performance of
Sen. Bukola Saraki at the presidential election convention of the PDP is a
befitting end to the ambition of a greedy, untrustworthy and double-dealing
politician.
“With a miserly 317 votes, behind
Aminu Tambuwal’s 693 votes and Atiku Abubakar’s 1532 votes, the PDP delegates
have given clear indication that they are fed up with Saraki’s political style.
When a leader cannot be trusted, cannot be relied upon, and cannot keep
agreements, the people take due cognisance and records of these actions and respond
with their votes at the appropriate time.
“How will someone who emerged
senate president through conspiracy with members of the opposition Party and
against the wishes and interests of his own party be trusted to be elected as
the presidential candidate of a party? Even on his being elected to the
position, did Saraki acquit himself creditably?
“Throughout Saraki’s tenure as
senate president, it has been one confrontation between the national assembly
leadership with the executive or another.
“Confirmation of executive
nominees sent to the senate has been delayed unnecessarily, annual national
budgets delayed. For instance, the supplementary budget of the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 general election is
continually delayed due to Saraki’s selfish political machinations.
“A selfish Saraki will rather
than perform his constitutional legislative functions by ensuring timely
consideration and passage of executive bills, will rather sabotage the efforts
of the executive in furtherance of his treacherous politics.”
Nabena said Saraki could not
continue to preside over the senate which is dominated by the APC.
“Having sabotaged the President
Muhammadu Buhari government while in the APC, he later showed his true colours
by formally joining the opposition PDP,” the statement read.
“The APC bade him goodbye as he
returned to the looters club where he belongs. However, in doing so, Saraki
must do the needful by giving up the senate president position. He should be a
distinguished senator in name and in deed. He cannot continue to preside over
the APC-dominated senate as a member of the minority PDP.”
heheheheh APC your style of so call false comrade Adam will not work, if you like go on strike... saraki is a man who call a spade a spade, and dump the den of clueless and vengeance APC
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