The All Progressives Congress
(APC) has declared that the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, is unfit to
lead Nigeria.
Yekini Nabena, APC National
Publicity Secretary, said this in a statement on Wednesday.
He noted that while every
Nigerian has the right to run for any office, there are many issues that border
on such person’s integrity, antecedents, competence and capability to preside
over the affairs of the country.
Nabena stated that APC was aware
that Saraki’s presidential declaration was a tactic to deflect attention from
the deluge of issues he deals with, particularly ahead of the 2019 General
Elections.
He said pressure to reconvene the
National Assembly, a fast-shifting political order in Kwara State, among others
were a few examples.
Nabena wrote: “By virtue of
Saraki’s antecedents, he is an abysmal failure and is totally incompetent to
offer himself as a candidate for leadership of Nigeria. Saraki was a two-term
Governor of Kwara State and Senate President in the last three years. What were
his performance records in these two assignments?
“As Kwara State Governor, was his
Shonga Agricultural Programme, not a white elephant project in which hundreds
of millions of State funds was sunk into? The infrastructure, particularly
roads network in Kwara State in which the present administration remains under
his tight grip and political machinations long after leaving office, remains
deplorable while state resources are mismanaged through corrupt enrichment.
“A Presidential aspirant who
promises to create jobs and turn around the economy at the national level must
have done so in a state he served as Governor for eight years. We challenge
Saraki to give the nation his scorecard as a Kwara State.
“As Senate President, how Saraki
used the position to superintend over budget padding, sabotage of the executive
by frustrating confirmation of presidential nominees, stalling legislative
approvals for election budgets and his recent shadow boxing on the Electoral Act,
among other treacherous actions against the APC (which he was then a member) in
pursuit of his selfish political interests has been well reported.
“Was Saraki’s Senate Presidency
not a journey of shame and disgrace? – moving from one Court or Tribunal to
another over charges of forgery of Senate Rules, false declaration of assets,
and being linked with armed robbers who brutally killed and maimed innocent
residents in Offa recently.
“Saraki says he is heeding the
call of Nigerian youths to contest the Presidency. We are not aware of any
meeting of Nigerian youths held during which they decided that. For the record,
the #NotTooYoungToRun group berated Saraki for selfishly using their forum to
make his presidential declaration. We are not surprised by Saraki’s selfish
actions as it has come to define his politics and persona.
“Saraki says he will offer
leadership driven by empathy. Coming from an incredibly selfish and
self-opinionated politician this is indeed an irony. Saraki’s Presidential
aspiration is a huge joke and should not be taken seriously.
“He has repeatedly displayed his
character as extremely selfish, deceitful, untrustworthy and unreliable. His
only goal is to get to the top, stay at the top, ruin or wreck whatever he
finds there or in the event of failure, collapse the system or process.
“Nigerians have had enough of Dr.
Bukola Saraki’s retrogressive and disruptive style of politics and deserve no
more.”
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