BREAKING NEWS: Saraki Fires Oshiomhole

The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has replied the All
Progressives Congress, APC, party Chairman, Adams
Oshiomhole, who had said that he (Saraki) would not only be
impeached but would also be stopped from returning to the
Senate after the 2019 elections.
However, Saraki who responded through his media aide,
Yusuf Olaniyon, said Oshiomhole is behaving like rain-beaten
chicken.
Below is the full statement:-
“It is rather surprising that Mr. Adams Oshiomhole is
behaving like a rain-beaten chicken, crying all over the place
about Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, as if the Senate President
is the apparition haunting his life and the sinking ship that he
captains.
Having decided not to join the pigs in rolling in the dirt; we
would not like to be involved in any meaningless exchange
with the demagogue now in charge of APC. However, because
he claimed that he was reacting to the issues raised by the
Senate President during his World Press Conference, we
thought it necessary to give the APC chairman some
attention.
Alas, we found that instead of addressing any issue raised by
the Senate President, his press conference merely showcased
his obsession and those of his sponsors with Saraki’s
removal, which he did without any decorum befitting of his
age or his awarded office. He brimmed with hate, hurled
abuses, threw tantrums, told lies, huffed, puffed. In the end,
he said nothing.
It is indeed amazing that the same Oshiomhole, who is now
describing Saraki as a politician of no consequence was the
same one who only a few months ago was crawling all over
the place pleading for Saraki’s support to become chairman.
We are sure that those who took him to Saraki several times
to plead his case must now be thoroughly embarrassed by
his reckless and uncouth manner.
By his conduct and utterances, Oshiomhole, who accused
Saraki of not acting in national interest needs to do more to
convince Nigerians that his desperate desire to become party
chairman is not simply to feed his over-sized ego.
The position of Oshiomhole and his cohorts in the APC that
the Senate President must resign is a mere wishful thinking.
They will continue to dream about their planned removal of
the Senate President.
They will need 73 Senators to lawfully remove Dr. Saraki and
they will never get that in the present eight Senate.
The argument of APC that the Senate President must come
from a majority party; that the Senate Presidency is their
crown and National Assembly is their palace is only
supported by ignorance and dangerous delusion. First, the
issue of which party is in the majority will only be resolved
when the Senate resume.
Two, Section 50 (1) (a) of the constitution is clear that any
Senator can be elected as Senate President. If the only thing
left of the APC change agenda is to change the Senate
President we can only wish them goodluck.
Perhaps, Mr. Oshiomhole needs to be better educated about
our parliamentary history when he Stated that “For the first
time in parliamentary history in Nigeria, we had a situation
where the APC had majority of Senators and went on to elect
a PDP as Deputy Senate President”.
Where is Mr. Oshiomhole when Senator John Wash Pam of
the Nigerian People’s Party (NPP) became Deputy Senate
President in the Second Republic even when the National
Party of Nigeria (NPN) had the majority. The same thing
happened in the House of Representatives when NPP’s Rt.
Hon. Edwin Umeh Ezeoke was elected Speaker in an NPN
majority House. But then, it would require a level of
education to understand these things.
What hypocrisy! To think that this same APC were jubilating
when Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal retained his position after he
defected from the PDP and still retained his seat, even when
his new party was in the minority. These are people whose
standards of morality are infinitely elastic.
We are sure the remaining APC Senators need to do a lot of
work to bring Oshiomhole up to speed about parliamentary
practice.
His ignorance are too clear in his comments about how the
Senate was adjourned on July 24, 2018, the distribution of
committee chairmanship in the Senate and the difference
between the post of Senate President and Minority Leader.
He has made so much song and dance about Mr. Godswill
Akpabio resigning as Senate Minority Leader when he left the
PDP to join APC. For this, Akpabio has become his hero and a
symbol of honour. He obviously does not understand that the
post of Minority Leader is a strictly party affair.
And the PDP simply decided who to give it as it is not even a
position that was mentioned in the constitution. Whereas, the
Senate President position is a constitutional creation, which
required majority votes of all the members.
Again, we don’t expect people whose only experience in
politics is at the provincial levels to understand this. No
wonder they are talking of crowns and inheritance.
The fair distribution of the Committee chairmanship is one of
the stabilizing factors in the 8th Senate and has helped it in
achieving more than all its predecessors.
We need to inform this divisive element who now leads APC
that if he wants to know why the 2018 budget was delayed, he
should ask the heads of the MDAs. We reckon that should be
easy for him since he is now their ‘headmaster’, moving
around with canes to whip ministers into line.
Oshiomhole once again demonstrated his lack of sense of
history by talking of Buhari winning more votes in Kwara
than Saraki. We are sure President Buhari himself will
disagree with the APC chairman.
We invite the APC chairman to look at the figures of votes
secured by the President in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 to
know that the difference is clear, like a commercial advert
stated.
We hereby assure this garrulous, tactless and reckless APC
chairman that a million of Adams Oshiomhole cannot remove
Saraki as Senate President.
His illegal plots, can only feed his insatiable ego and keep
him awake at nights. But it will remain an exercise in
futility.”