Saraki & Oshiomhole. |
MY
RESPONSE TO ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE - Bukola Saraki
It
is rather surprising that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is behaving like a rain-beaten
chicken, crying all over the place about Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, as if the
Senate President is the apparition haunting his life and the sinking ship that
he captains.
2.
Having decided not to join the pigs in rolling in the dirt; we would not like
to be involved in any meaningless exchange with the demagogue now in charge of
APC. However, because he claimed that he was reacting to the issues raised by
the Senate President during his World Press Conference, we thought it necessary
to give the APC chairman some attention.
Alas,
we found that instead of addressing any issue raised by the Senate President,
his press conference merely showcased his obsession and those of his sponsors
with Saraki's removal, which he did without any decorum befitting of his age or
his awarded office. He brimmed with hate, hurled abuses, threw tantrums, told
lies, huffed, puffed. In the end, he said nothing.
3.
It is indeed amazing that the same Oshiomhole, who is now describing Saraki as
a politician of no consequence was the same one who only a few months ago was
crawling all over the place pleading for Saraki's support to become chairman.
We are sure that those who took him to Saraki several times to plead his case
must now be thoroughly embarrassed by his reckless and uncouth manner.
4.
By his conduct and utterances, Oshiomhole, who accused Saraki of not acting in
national interest needs to do more to convince Nigerians that his desperate
desire to become party chairman is not simply to feed his over-sized ego.
5.
The position of Oshiomhole and his cohorts in the APC that the Senate President
must resign is a mere wishful thinking. They will continue to dream about their
planned removal of the Senate President. They will need 73 Senators to lawfully
remove Dr. Saraki and they will never get that in the present eight Senate.
6.
The argument of APC that the Senate President must come from a majority party;
that the Senate Presidency is their crown and National Assembly is their
palace is only supported by ignorance and dangerous delusion. First, the issue
of which party is in the majority will only be resolved when the Senate resume.
Two, Section 50 (1) (a) of the constitution is clear that any Senator can be
elected as Senate President. If the only thing left of the APC change agenda is
to change the Senate President we can only wish them goodluck.
7.
Perhaps, Mr. Oshiomhole needs to be better educated about our parliamentary
history when he Stated that "For the first time in parliamentary history
in Nigeria, we had a situation where the APC had majority of Senators and went
on to elect a PDP as Deputy Senate President". Where is Mr. Oshiomhole
when Senator John Wash Pam of the Nigerian People's Party (NPP) became Deputy
Senate President in the Second Republic even when the National Party of Nigeria
(NPN) had the majority. The same thing happened in the House of Representatives
when NPP's Rt. Hon. Edwin Umeh Ezeoke was elected Speaker in an NPN majority
House. But then, it would require a level of education to understand these
things.
8.
What hypocrisy! To think that this same APC were jubilating when Rt. Hon. Aminu
Tambuwal retained his position after he defected from the PDP and still
retained his seat, even when his new party was in the minority. These are
people whose standards of morality are infinitely elastic.
9.
We are sure the remaining APC Senators need to do a lot of work to bring
Oshiomhole up to speed about parliamentary practice. His ignorance are too
clear in his comments about how the Senate was adjourned on July 24, 2018, the
distribution of committee chairmanship in the Senate and the difference between
the post of Senate President and Minority Leader.
10.
He has made so much song and dance about Mr. Godswill Akpabio resigning as
Senate Minority Leader when he left the PDP to join APC. For this, Akpabio has
become his hero and a symbol of honour. He obviously does not understand that
the post of Minority Leader is a strictly party affair. And the PDP simply
decided who to give it as it is not even a position that was mentioned in the
constitution. Whereas, the Senate President position is a constitutional
creation, which required majority votes of all the members. Again, we don't
expect people whose only experience in politics is at the provincial levels to
understand this. No wonder they are talking of crowns and inheritance.
11.
The fair distribution of the Committee chairmanship is one of the stabilizing
factors in the 8th Senate and has helped it in achieving more than all its
predecessors.
12.
We need to inform this divisive element who now leads APC that if he wants to
know why the 2018 budget was delayed, he should ask the heads of the
MDAs. We reckon that should be easy for him since he is now their
'headmaster', moving around with canes to whip ministers into line.
13.
Oshiomhole once again demonstrated his lack of sense of history by talking of
Buhari winning more votes in Kwara than Saraki. We are sure President Buhari
himself will disagree with the APC chairman. We invite the APC chairman to look
at the figures of votes secured by the President in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015
to know that the difference is clear, like a commercial advert stated.
14.
We hereby assure this garrulous, tactless and reckless APC chairman that a
million of Adams Oshiomhole cannot remove Saraki as Senate President. His
illegal plots, can only feed his insatiable ego and keep him awake at nights.
But it will remain an exercise in futility.
Signed
Yusuph
Olaniyonu
Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President
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