The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria has
expressed displeasure with the outcome of the National Assembly leadership
election, calling it Treachery.
Contrary to the party’s choice of candidates in a mock
election over the weekend, Mr Bukola Saraki emerged the Senate President while
Mr Yakubu Dogara clinched the position of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
Both persons are members of the APC.
After the result of the House of Representatives’ election
was announced by the Clark of the House, the ruling party said the outcome of
the elections of the two chambers was “totally unacceptable and the highest
level of indiscipline and treachery”.
The party had chosen Senator, Ahmed Lawan for the Senate
President’s position and Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, as its candidate for the
position of the Speaker.
Necessary Sanctions
In a statement, the spokesman of the party, Mr Lai Mohammed,
said: “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.
”The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that
of its individual members”.
According to Mr Mohammed, “the APC leadership is meeting in
a bid to re-establish 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.
“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
report to the Senate to be sworn-in in order to discharge their constitutional
duties, apparently accepting the outcome of the election.
Read full statement
of the APC below.
Emergence of Saraki, Dogara as Senate President, House
Speaker unacceptable to APC
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.
”The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that
of its individual members,” the party said in a statement issued in Abuja
Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
”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.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Abuja, June 9th 2015
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