National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has dismissed the claim
by Senate President, Bukola Saraki that President Muhammadu Buhari gave juicy
federal appointments to only Katsina and Lagos States.
Saraki said, “The Federal
Government appointed over 200 persons into juicy offices without allotting any
slot to me or (Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu) Dogara.
“Everything went to Katsina, Katsina,
Lagos, Lagos. If not for the love I have for Nigeria, we would have scattered
everything. They don’t want us in their party. They don’t like us in Kwara.
“What I am after is for my people
to enjoy dividend of democracy. I want us to be in the party that will love my
people. Wherever we are, we will win elections. The governor told me he’s tired
of the APC.”
Responding at a press conference
at the party headquarters in Abuja on Friday, Oshiomhole declared that Saraki
was totally wrong.
His words: “He alleged that
Buhari gave out over 200 juicy appointments without allocating some to him and
he chooses to speak for the Speaker of the House of Representatives that he was
also not given. He lamented that he was not given a share of the so called 200
juicy positions.
“My question is, giving Saraki
the Senate President juicy position; does that coincide with the Nigerian
project? Or the interest of the people of Kwara State of his Senatorial zone.
At no time did he refer to the interest of the people of his constituency or
the people of Nigeria.
“The second reason he gave was
that he was being persecuted. That is alleged persecution of his person and not
his people. He never pretended that any of these actions had anything, to do
with the people of Nigeria, but his person.
“I think the governor of Kwara
State was more explicit in collaborating his claim when he said that he as
governor and Saraki as senate President were being linked to armed robbery
cases. Again, that has nothing to do with the Nigerian project or the Kwara
people.
“What is the truth? Who linked
Senator Saraki to armed robbery? Was it the federal government or arrested
armed robbers? It is the armed robbers that alleged that the weapons with which
they carried out the operation were procured for them by senate President. This
is contained in the police report which is no longer a secret.
“He has not denied knowledge of
these people since some of them were captured in his entourage during his
condolence visit. So if armed robbers linked the name of the senate president,
is the APC or the government to blame?
“A crime that led to the killing
of about 35 persons cannot be dismissed with a wave of hand and in any
jurisdiction, when your name is linked to such heinous crime, people don’t clap
for you. It is the duty of the security agents to investigate and establish
whether they are valid or invalid.
“So he was linked to armed
robbery, which cannot be an offence of the government or the APC. The best
defence I have heard is that the robbers said that he did not ask them to use
the weapon for armed robbery.
“In support of my thesis that
Saraki has never acted in the national interest, my final submission is on the
way he adjourned the senate. The senate calendar is not a secret to the
presiding officer and the calendar that was known was that the senate was going
to adjourn on a Thursday.
“So, I submit that Saraki’s
action were calculated to undermine democracy. Those who fought for democracy
did not do it so that it can be run at the mercies of a senate president whose
interest is clearly at variance with national interest. There was a request for
virement which was also not considered.”
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