Senate President Bukola Saraki has released a statement
repsonding to the fresh call for his resignation by APC National chairman,
Adams Oshiomole.Oshiomole at a press briefing in Abuja yesterday, said his
party will do everything legal to ensure that Saraki is impeached and voted out
of office come 2019.
In his response which was released by his media aide,
Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said Oshiomole is behaving like a rain-beaten chicken
and that he is merely engaging in wishful thinking. In his statement, Saraki
said one million of Adams Oshiomole cannot remove him from office.Read his
statement belowResponse to Adams Oshiomhole 1. 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-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.SignedYusuph Olaniyonu
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