The All Progressives Congress on
Thursday launched a tirade against the President of the Senate, Dr
Bukola Saraki, calling him a traitor, betrayer and a man unfit to hold a
public office......
The party’s renewed attack on Saraki was
contained in a statement by the acting National Publicity Secretary of
the APC, Mr Yekini Nabena, in Abuja.
According to the ruling party, the
position of the Senate President is one of the highest political offices
one can attain in every democratic country and it is a position usually
reserved for the best, experienced and exemplary politicians who by
their character and conduct in public offices, serve as role models for
the younger generation.
The statement reads, “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, 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.”
The party argued that all over the
world, the leadership of the legislature was provided by the political
party with the majority members but Saraki took advantage of the absence
of many members of his former party – the All Progressives Congress –
to conspire with members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to
emerge Senate President and, in the process, traded off the position of
the deputy Senate President to the opposition.
The APC described the alleged trade-off as “a political betrayal and treachery even the devil would be envious of.”
The party decried Saraki’s continued
occupation of the position of Senate President even after he had dumped
the majority party to join the minority.
It said it was not surprised at what it
called the Senate President’s greed, selfishness, treachery, disregard
for protocol and constituted authority.
The statement further read, “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 the PDP in 2014, the APC in 2015 by conspiring
with the 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.”
It said Saraki would dump the PDP a
second time if his interest was not served, alleging that such a man was
not interested in the Nigeria of our dreams.
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