Kwara APC canvasses rule of law in electing Assembly speaker

Date: 2019-04-17

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State have said that rule of law and legislative experience should not be sacrificed on the altar of sectionalism when electing ninth speaker of the state House of Assembly.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Wednesday, members of the Legacy Group/Foundation members of the APC said that it would be counterproductive if rule of law and legislative experience were jettisoned.

Led by its chairman in the Kwara Central senatorial district, Alhaji Gani Saka, the group also called on leadership of the party, including President Muhammadu Buhari, APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, APC national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Alhaji Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, the state chairman of the APC, Hon. Bashir Bolarinwa, among others to ensure that members of the party, who had laboured were not subjected to further injustice.

"in as much as we will want to appreciate efforts of our dear brothers and elected members from the Kwara North, we cannot but be guided by a Yoruba proverb that says, "the blind cannot successfully lead the blind." Therefore, we will like to declare our support for the rule of law, by clearly encouraging our party leaders to do the needful by declaring Hon. Saheed Popoola, who is the only re-elected House member among the 24 House of Assembly members-elect, as the next speaker of the House.

"Hon. Saheed Popoola, who has the best political experience as former council secretary, member of Kwara state polytechnic governing council, Offa local government council chairman, former commissioner and the only returning House member, is qualified to be the next speaker of the House where all other members are fresher," he said.

The people, who also called attention of leadership of the party to alleged injustice on them, said that emergence of APC candidates for the just concluded general elections was lopsided.

They said that members that decamped to the party were allotted 95 per cent in elective positions.

"From the position of governor-elect, deputy governor-elect, senators and House of Representatives members, down to the House of Assembly members, almost all are from the camp of our decampee members, while the foundation members were left with next to nothing in the whole arrangement.

"Therefore, it will be great injustice to again sacrifice Hon. Saheed Popoola who has sacrificed so much for the party when it was an act of political suicide for any elected party man to stand with the party against Dr. Bukola Saraki's position, he stood with the party.

"When all other members of the current House of Assembly members decamped to the PDP with Saraki, he stood alone with the APC in the state," he said.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

AGM Professional Services     Bola Shagaya     Ola Falade     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Sardauna     United Nigeria Congress Party     Muhammed Abdullahi     Tunde Saad     Oke-Kura     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Ibrahim Taiwo     MAI Akande     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Christopher Odetunde     Gobir Organization Foundation     Olokoba     Fawenu     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Sabi     Iliasu     Jani Ibrahim     Edu     Garba Idris Ajia     Ajia-Bako     IYA ALFA NLA     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Abdulraheem Olesin     LABTOP     Adama Isa     Kola Olota     KwaraLearn     Convocation Ceremonies     Mamatu Abdullahi     Oke-Odo     Ayo Adeyemi     Ubandoma     Jalala     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Rotimi Oyedepo     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Allocation     Awili Pedro     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Elections     Adijat Adebiyi     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Rasheed Jimoh     Salman Suleiman     Bolakale Ayo     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Bibire Ajape     Ashiru     LEAH Charity Foundation     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Omu-aran     Ayo Opadokun     Shao     Gwanara     Tafida Of Kaiama     Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union     Kwarareports.com     Tinubu     Umar Danladi Shero     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Ayedun     Isiaka Danmeromu     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Olatunji Moronfoye     Oke-opin     Iyabo Adewuyi     Olabanji Orilonishe     Age AbdulKareem     Bolaji Nagode    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Aremu Odolaye     CLAY POT     Balogin Alanamu     Share/Tsaragi     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     KWASAA     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Gbenga Adebayo     Rueben Parejo     Shonga     Apado     KWSUED     Pategi     Harrison Osauwagboe     Communication Network Support Services     Ridwan Agboola     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     General Hospital     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Gbemi Saraki     John Olajide Adedipe     Gabriel Fashanu     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Folashade Omoniyi     Kolo     Jimoh Bashir     Amusa Bello     Al-Hikmah Radio     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Mujtabah Bature     Arca Santa     Kwara 2019     Olokoba     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Hajj     Monkey Pox     Quranic Recitation Competition     Sa\'adu Gambari     BIR     Amos Sayo     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Babajide Ajayi     Kazeem Adekanye     Sunday Otokiti     Ijakadi     Idi-Ape     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Oluranti Idowu     Simeon Ajibola     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     NTA Ilorin     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Yoonus Lawal     Balikis Jawondo     Shoprite     Onilorin Of Ilorin     AbdulRaheem Ahmad Shayi     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Budo-Egba     Press Release     Ajakaye     Hassan A. Saliu     Olam Food Ingredients     Salman Suleiman     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Abdulraheem Olesin     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Abdulrazaq Magaji     April 11