APC chieftain to Saraki, Dogara: steer clear of selection of National Assembly leaders

All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain Yekini Nabena has urged Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara to stay off the processes of picking the leadership of the Ninth National Assembly.

Nabena told reporters in Abuja that the APC has learnt its lesson from the outgoing Assembly when those he described as “impostors” hijacked the leadership of the legislature.

He alleged that those who hijacked the leadership, used their positions to frustrate the efforts of the Prseident Muhamadu Buhari-led government to effect positive changes in the country.

The APC chief, who doubles APC’s deputy national publicity secretary, said the decision of the ruling party  on the selection and zoning of principal offices in the incoming Ninth National Assembly is supreme and must be respected by the party’s legislative caucus and opposition federal lawmakers.

He said: “The APC has learnt its lesson from the outgoing National Assembly when impostors masquerading as party men sabotaged our party and hijacked our mandate. Affliction shall not rise up the second time.

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“The efforts by the Adams Oshiomhole leadership of the party are commendable in achieving a fair selection and zoning arrangement that appeals to a greater section of the party stakeholders.

“APC is the overwhelmingly majority party in the National Assembly and has a legitimate right to make its choices on the selection and zoning of principal offices. The APC family is in agreement on the party’s supremacy and the PDP and other opposition parties should focus on their minority positions.”

He stressed that outgoing Senate President, House Speaker and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Assembly Caucus, have been moving from pillar to post to frustrate the plan of APC through a hidden evil plot to interfere in the emergence of incoming National Assembly leaders.

“We are aware of the scheming by Saraki, Dogara and the PDP caucus to interfere with the emergence of the incoming National Assembly leadership. Their plans are bound to fail as the APC is a strong party with unity of purpose”, Nabena said.