APC Finally Reacts To Saraki’s Emergence
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery the conduct of Tuesday’s inauguration of the National Assembly that led to the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.
“Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the candidates of the APC and a
majority of its National Assembly members-elect for the positions of
Senate President and House Speaker.
The party duly met and conducted a straw poll and clear candidates
emerged for the posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by a majority of all
Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives. All
National Assembly members-elect who emerged on the platform of the party
are bound by that decision. In a statement issued in Abuja Tuesday by
its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, it said: “The
party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual
members,” the party said.
“Consequently, the APC leadership is meeting in a bid to reestablish
discipline in the party and to mete out the necessary sanctions to all
those involved in what is nothing but a monumental act of indiscipline
and betrayal to subject the party to ridicule and create obstacles for
the new administration,” it said. APC decried a situation in which some
people, based on nothing but inordinate ambition and lack of discipline
and loyalty, will enter into an unholy alliance with the very same
people whom the party and indeed the entire country worked hard to
replace and sell out the hard won victory of the Party. There can be no
higher level of treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any party,”
the party said, vowing to resolve the matter using all constitutional
and legal means available to it.
Meanwhile, the APC has asked all its loyal senators-elect to please
report to the Senate to be sworn-in in order to discharge their
constitutional duties.