Lai Mohammed, the APC national publicity secretary, on behalf of his party has issued a statement describing the elections of Bukola Saraki as senate president and Yakubu Dogara as speaker, as an act of “treachery” which is “unacceptable.”
”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,” a part of the statement reads.
”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.
”There can be no higher level of treachery, disloyalty and insincerity within any part,” the statement further notes.
All Progressives Congress annointed candidates Ahmad Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila for the posts of senate president and speaker respectively were defeated after the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) endorsed Saraki and Dogara.
APC REACTS TO SARAKI, DOGARA ELECTION, CALLS THEM INDISCIPLINE MEMBERS
