Newly elected Senate President Bukola Saraki has blasted Lai Mohammed, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Publicity Secretary, speaking about his decision on party’s membership. Saraki described all those who claimed that he has plans of defecting from the ruling party to the opposition as his political opponents.
Senate President released a comment by his media office refraining from mentioning names, but it is considered to have directed his accusation at Mohammed.
It should be mentioned that APC spokesperson has defined the current composition of the leadership of the National Assembly, the Senate headed by Senator Olusola Saraki, and the House of Representatives, led by Yakubu Dogara, as pro-Peoples Democratic Party.
In answer to Mohammed and speculation making the rounds that he will return to PDP, Saraki rejected that he had a plan to defect to opposition, targeting the implications as “absurd and laughable.”
He said: “It is just cheap blackmail by political adversaries who want to call a dog a bad name in order to hang it. And those making such desperate allegations should remember that I willingly left the PDP on matters of principles when the party was in power. Is it now that the party is out of government and in opposition that I will now return having worked so hard for my party in the last general elections.”
He noted his commitment to the APC, adding that he stays a loyal party member and a leader of the party.
Saraki advised all members of the National Assembly to put politicking behind them and settle down for the proper business of legislating. His words: “Our country is going through a very trying times. We have the challenge of insecurity in the North East. The massive problem of youth unemployment and general economic challenges occasioned by the falling oil prices in the international market and the consequential fall in revenue.
“All these are coming against the huge public expectation that propelled our party into office. We have pursued our legitimate aspirations appropriately. Now that the issues have been settled, we need to move on in the larger interest of our people, without whose mandate we would not have been in a position to aspire to these positions in the first place.”
It would be recalled that the ruling party said the emergence of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogaraas Senate President and Speaker of House of Representatives correspondingly, was totally unacceptable and treacherous.
culled from naij
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