The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the threats by the All Progressives Congress to sanction the duly elected leaders of the National Assembly as empty.
Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the party in a statement yesterday, June 10, said the APC’s opposition to the new leadership of the National Assembly was an indication that party lacked the ability to handle the government at the centre.
“Nothing can be more astonishing than the whining by the APC that the PDP at the last minute expressed its preference for Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively after it had earlier stated that it was not interested the positions”, the statement read in part, according to Vanguard.
Metuh berated the leading party for attempting to shut the National Assembly on Tuesday in a bid to stop lawmakers from carrying out their constitutional duties.
He warned the party to desist from unnecessarily heating up the polity, noting that Nigerians were solidly behind the new leaders in the National Assembly.
Metuh said the APC’s opposition to the new leadership of the National Assembly was a reflection of the greed, lust for power and excessive ambitions of the leadership of the party.
He described the party’s actions as a threat to democracy and called on Nigerians and all lovers of democracy to ensure that the values of democracy already entrenched in the Nigerian constitution was nor truncated by the four year rule of the APC.
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Meanwhile, the fight for the soul of the eight Senate has taken a new dimension as the Ahmad Lawan-led faction which have the backing of the leaders of the APC have indicated readiness to head to court to challenge the poll that produced Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as President and Deputy President.
Olisa Metuh, the national publicity secretary of the party in a statement yesterday, June 10, said the APC’s opposition to the new leadership of the National Assembly was an indication that party lacked the ability to handle the government at the centre.
“Nothing can be more astonishing than the whining by the APC that the PDP at the last minute expressed its preference for Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively after it had earlier stated that it was not interested the positions”, the statement read in part, according to Vanguard.
Metuh berated the leading party for attempting to shut the National Assembly on Tuesday in a bid to stop lawmakers from carrying out their constitutional duties.
He warned the party to desist from unnecessarily heating up the polity, noting that Nigerians were solidly behind the new leaders in the National Assembly.
Metuh said the APC’s opposition to the new leadership of the National Assembly was a reflection of the greed, lust for power and excessive ambitions of the leadership of the party.
He described the party’s actions as a threat to democracy and called on Nigerians and all lovers of democracy to ensure that the values of democracy already entrenched in the Nigerian constitution was nor truncated by the four year rule of the APC.
READ ALSO: Tinubu’s Wife Walks Out On Saraki
Meanwhile, the fight for the soul of the eight Senate has taken a new dimension as the Ahmad Lawan-led faction which have the backing of the leaders of the APC have indicated readiness to head to court to challenge the poll that produced Senators Bukola Saraki and Ike Ekweremadu as President and Deputy President.
