SAYS ELECTION IS TREACHERY
June 9, 2015 – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the leadership of the party is meeting with a view to sanction, Senate President, Alhaji Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Yakubu Dogara.
Saraki and Dogara, both members of the APC were endorsed for the seat by the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) while the two candidates that lost, Senator Muhammad Ali Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila were endorsed by APC as Senate President and Speaker respectively.
But in a statement after the elections, signed by Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said those elected Speaker and Senate President were not candidate of the APC.
The statement described the election as totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery.
”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 bythat decision.
”The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual members. 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.
