Senator Abdullahi Adamu,
representing Nasarawa West, in the National Assembly under the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday took a swipe at Senators and members of
the House of Representatives who are opposed to President Muhammadu Buhari
contesting in 2019.
Adamu said the Senators should
leave the party if they are not comfortable with the arrangement.
The lawmaker said it was
unacceptable for anyone to climb to elective position on the platform of APC
and later formed a group of opposition to the government of the President who
is the leader of the party.
Senator Adamu who lampooned his
APC colleagues who may be opposed to Buhari and his government, said that
staying within the APC to form opposition to the government of President Buhari
was totally unacceptable, urging them to join the train or leave the party
quietly.
Adamu spoke yesterday in Keffi,
Nasarawa State at a gathering of APC stalwarts where they also adopted
President Muhammadu Buhari for another term.
Senator Adamu said that there was
no alternative to Buhari in 2019 if Nigeria truly desire development, adding,
“I am under oath as a member of the Distinguished Senate of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, and my oath of office compels me to be loyal, to be
patriotic in the course of promoting the well-being, existence and unity of
Nigeria.
“And the sovereignty of this
country is expressed symbolically in the office of the president of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. And today as we talk, the person God has chosen to be the
president of this country, the symbol of the sovereignty of this nation is
President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Those who don’t accept this are
being ungodly. Those who don’t accept this reality are deceiving themselves
more than any other person, and they should be careful of the wrath of God
Himself.
“Power belongs to God, power
comes from God, not anybody. Anybody who is in power is just an accessory, God
uses you to do what He wants, and once God does what He wants and you take a
position opposing what God has done, be careful, you may carry curse.
“What me and my like are doing is
a duty we owe this country, it’s a duty we owe ourselves, to support the
government of the day. Over and above that, the government of today, the
Federal Government of Nigeria, is an APC government, so I hold my head high for
identifying with my party, for being loyal to my party, because, but for things
going wrongly, we should uphold the principles of party supremacy.
“You can’t get elected on the
platform of a party and you get to the Assembly, and do anti-party activities.
“You don’t want the party for any
reason, you feel you are not part of it, get out of it. I can understand if a
PDP person doesn’t want to be supporting, he should find a means of drawing
that line between loyalty to the constitution of the country, and his
anti-government mentality. Even if you are PDP and a member of the National
Assembly, there are situations where you are supposed to be bipartisan, meaning
there is a limit to where you can go by being anti government because the
person occupying the presidency is not from your party. Only those who know
such limits, and are ready to abide by such limits are the ones who can answer
their father’s name in the national assembly.
“If you want to oppose, go, come
with your manifesto, tell us what you will do differently if you are the one
there and let Nigerians decide, but don’t hide under the immunity,
parliamentary immunity and misbehave. Some of us cannot live with it, we will
fight it.
“I was not elected in the
national assembly, I was elected in my constituency, and to my constituency I
will return. Every members of the National Assembly, the Senate or the House of
Reps, the State Assembly, you are elected by a constituency and you don’t go to
the National Assembly and behave like the proverbial Masquerade late Nnamdi
Azikiwe talked about, that goes to the public square with a rope tied to its
waist, and when he cuts the ropes off, the masquerade is on its own. That is
how some of these National Assembly members are now doing.
“They are now cutting the
umbilical cord between them and their party, between them and their
constituencies. We do not want to be counted among them.”
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