The Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Sanai Agunbiade of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has described as high level of party indiscipline, and political treachery for members of a party to have a secret pact with members the opposition, with a view to ascending to a political office.
Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara were alleged to have struck a secret pact with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators to emerged the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, in defiance to their party directive.
The lawmaker representing Ikorodu constituency in the state assembly, who said this while speaking on the leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly, adds that no matter what pact a member of a party has with a member of an opposition, it cannot be in the interest of his party.
“Saraki and Dogara must be remorseful, they must be able to honestly show remorse. If they don’t accept that what they have done is wrong, they are still entangling with the party, they are showing that they are no longer members of the party that brought them to power. You cannot claim to still be a member of the party that brought you to power if you are not loyal to that party.
“The first thing is for those, who have accepted Dogara and Saraki to be genuinely remorseful about working against the directive of the party. It is a new party, if they are genuinely remorseful, then they can sit with the party leadership to fashion a way out, every problem has a solution, but you can only fashion out the solution if there is consensus. When the two parties in the crisis are pulling the string, then there would be no solution.
“In the present day Nigeria, there is no room for independent candidacy, and whosoever is occupying any political office is occupying it on the platform of his or her political party; and that pre-supposes that every individual, who is a political office holder, is expected to be a loyal member of that party.
“The moment you join a party, you have submitted your supremacy to that party, just like individuals submit their supremacy to the country as citizens of that country.
“It is high level of party indiscipline, and it is a political treachery for an individual to have a secret pact with members of an opposition party with a view to ascending to a political office. No matter what pact a member of a party has with a member of an opposition, it cannot be in the interest of his party; there would be some undercurrents”, he lamented.
He said further that no matter which angle the situation is been looked at it, a party should have influence, discipline and control over its members.
“No matter what you do, it cannot favour your party, you’re an adulterated person; partly APC, partly PDP. Your party will say one thing, but you will not want to hurt those who brought you to power.
“So how does the manifesto of the party play out on you, how do you implement the agenda of the party? The way forward is for everybody, who is in APC to look inward to the party machinery and party structure. There must be political discipline.
“Is it good for a man to use a ladder to attain a level and throw away the ladder and use another method to attain another level, when you know that you will still need that ladder? It is a matter of integrity and we must not put ambition above integrity”, he said.
It would be recalled that Senator Saraki was elected unopposed by 57 of 108 Senators, with 51 Senators missing, Lawan among them, at the inauguration of the 8th Assembly.
Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara were alleged to have struck a secret pact with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators to emerged the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, in defiance to their party directive.
The lawmaker representing Ikorodu constituency in the state assembly, who said this while speaking on the leadership crisis rocking the National Assembly, adds that no matter what pact a member of a party has with a member of an opposition, it cannot be in the interest of his party.
“Saraki and Dogara must be remorseful, they must be able to honestly show remorse. If they don’t accept that what they have done is wrong, they are still entangling with the party, they are showing that they are no longer members of the party that brought them to power. You cannot claim to still be a member of the party that brought you to power if you are not loyal to that party.
“The first thing is for those, who have accepted Dogara and Saraki to be genuinely remorseful about working against the directive of the party. It is a new party, if they are genuinely remorseful, then they can sit with the party leadership to fashion a way out, every problem has a solution, but you can only fashion out the solution if there is consensus. When the two parties in the crisis are pulling the string, then there would be no solution.
“In the present day Nigeria, there is no room for independent candidacy, and whosoever is occupying any political office is occupying it on the platform of his or her political party; and that pre-supposes that every individual, who is a political office holder, is expected to be a loyal member of that party.
“The moment you join a party, you have submitted your supremacy to that party, just like individuals submit their supremacy to the country as citizens of that country.
“It is high level of party indiscipline, and it is a political treachery for an individual to have a secret pact with members of an opposition party with a view to ascending to a political office. No matter what pact a member of a party has with a member of an opposition, it cannot be in the interest of his party; there would be some undercurrents”, he lamented.
He said further that no matter which angle the situation is been looked at it, a party should have influence, discipline and control over its members.
“No matter what you do, it cannot favour your party, you’re an adulterated person; partly APC, partly PDP. Your party will say one thing, but you will not want to hurt those who brought you to power.
“So how does the manifesto of the party play out on you, how do you implement the agenda of the party? The way forward is for everybody, who is in APC to look inward to the party machinery and party structure. There must be political discipline.
“Is it good for a man to use a ladder to attain a level and throw away the ladder and use another method to attain another level, when you know that you will still need that ladder? It is a matter of integrity and we must not put ambition above integrity”, he said.
It would be recalled that Senator Saraki was elected unopposed by 57 of 108 Senators, with 51 Senators missing, Lawan among them, at the inauguration of the 8th Assembly.
