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| Alhaji Lai Mohammed |
The All Progressives Congress 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 Mr. Yakubu
Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives,
respectively.
This
was contained in a statement by APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, in Abuja on Tuesday.
APC
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.
The Punch reports:
“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.
”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.”
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.
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