Kwara By-Election: You're not an election tribunal, APC lectures Senate

Date: 2018-11-24

The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has cautioned the Senate not to dabble into the workings of the judiciary with regards to the conduct of the last by-election in Kwara state.

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC said "the questionable decision by the Senate to investigate the circumstances leading to the Peoples Democratic Party PDP loss in the last Saturday's House of Representatives' by-election in Kwara State must be seen for what it is - an abuse of the powers of the legislative arm of government to pursue selfish political ends".

The party condemned what it described as the various Senate investigations of the by-election, which took place in the home state of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

"We also find it curious that other by-election conducted in Katsina and Bauchi States have not received similar attention from the Senate.

"It is clear that the sweet victory by the APC House of Representatives candidate, Alhaji Raheem Olawuyi-Ajuloopin in the by-election has hit the overrated federal lawmakers from Kwara State badly.

"The PDP is not pretending to have learnt any lessons from its past anti-democratic practices. The usurpers occupying the Senate leadership seat have no altruistic intentions other than to manipulate state institutions to pursue personal interests and massage battered ego. When has it become the responsibility of the legislative arm of government to constitute itself into an election tribunal?

"They should understand that, like the rest of the country, Kwara State has seen enough of impunity and misrule represented by the self-serving leaders of the PDP. Turning the Senate into an electoral tribunal only shows Nigerians that the PDP has not changed from its odious practice of compromising the system to promote illusionary ambitions. We can only advise the leaders of PDP in Kwara State and elsewhere in the country to get used to losing elections. The Nigerian electorate have tasted the benefits of good governance in the last three and half years of President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government and won't go back to the PDP's 16 years of waste and misrule.

"Elections have been won and lost. A new and progressive Kwara State beckons. Through their votes, the Kwara electorate have spoken clearly on the new political direction in the State. Kwara State has suffered enough of the selfish machinations of a self-appointed leader. The will and wishes of the good people of the state must prevail now, in the 2019 elections and beyond"0, the party added.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Shururat Olatinwo     Ibrahim Akaje     Orisun Igbomina     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Salman Jawondo     Kamoru Kadiri     Ayo Salami     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Buari Edun     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     John Olajide Adedipe     Smart School     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Amoyo     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Wahab Abayawo     Aremu Odolaye     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Michael Nzekwe     Tunji Moronfoye     Gbemisola Saraki     NFAI     FOMWAN     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     ASMAU PLAZA     Lukman Adeloyin     NULGE     Quareeb Islamic Association     Frootify     Ibrahim Taiwo     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Taiwo Joseph     Sa\'adu Gambari     Twitter     Ahmed \'Lateef     Hajj     Baba Issa Awoye     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Isiaka Gold     Ajike People Support Centre     Amule     Rebecca Bake     Yemi Sanni     KW-GIS     Tunde Kazeem     George Funsho Adebayo     Obuh     Jimoh Akani     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Congress For National Consensus     Voices Of Tomorrow     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Bayo Ajia     Amada Jidda     Al-Hikmah Radio     Abdulkarim Adisa     Fola Consultant     Onilu     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Overland     Turaki     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Sobi FM     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Hassan Oyeleke     African Democratic Congress     Bolakale Saka     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     Ajase-Ipo     Dumagi     AbdulRauf Keji     Femi Agbaje    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Alagbado     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     A.E. Afolabi     Federal Allocation     Mashood Dauda     Aliyu Sabi     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Obayomi Azeez     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Ibrahim Oniye     Moses Afolayan     Shettima     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Benin Republic     Ajayi Okasanmi     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     UNIFEMGA     Dagbalodo     Mohammed Abdulahi     Simeon Sayomi     IQRA College     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Dorcas Afeniforo     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Kale Bayero     Ghali Alaaya     FOMWAN     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Mamman Saba Jibril     Alapansapa     Matthew Babaoye     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Rafiu Ajakaye     Orisun Igbomina     Popo-Igbonna     Amusement Park     Okiki     Yeketi     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Lafiagi     Baba Issa     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Allocation     Ibrahim Jawondo     Kanu Agabi     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Post Utme     Saba Jibril     BIR     Cassava Growers\' Association     Cornelius Fawenu     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Azeez Salawu     Olatunde Jare     Sulaiman Gado     Balogun Ajikobi     Siraj Oyewale     Aliyu Muhammed     Alao Ayotunde     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Abikan     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Obuh     Salman Suleiman     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Rafiu Olasile     Ilorin International Airport     Mohammed Danjuma     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Isiaka Danmeromu