The Senate president, Bukola Saraki has been accused of allowing his ambition to plunge the All Progressives Congress into crisis.
Gbenga Awoyale Photo credit: The Nation
The natonal president of Orisun Igbomina, a socio-cultrural organisation, Gbenga Awoyale made this remark while fielding questions from newsmen in Lagos.
He asked the party leadership to insist on the enthronement of the party supremacy in the crisis rocking the Senate, The Nation reports.
Awoyale added that the crisis would have been prevented if Saraki has complied with party directive over its choice.
He said: “Truth as they say is bitter, but no matter what, the truth must be told no matter whose ox is gored. It was Saraki’s inordinate ambition that precipitated the crisis. Why did Saraki disobey the APC leadership on how positions should be shared at the Senate?
“He deliberately plunged the APC into this needless crisis and he is now shedding crocodile tears. Nobody should take him serious. He should be sanctioned for disobeying his party. He did the same thing while he was in PDP and this was one of the reasons the party lost the presidential election. The APC should be firm in sanctioning Saraki.”
He continued by saying: It is an act of betrayal of trust. How can he ignore the party on which platform he won election to become a Senator? Can he be higher than the party? What Saraki did amounts to indiscipline; he should be punished for that.
“If he didn’t have a hidden agenda, why did he sneak in and hide in the National Assembly premises at midnight on the eve of the inauguration of the Senate when other senators elected on the platform of the APC were at the International Conference Centre waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari?”
The community leader added that the best way to end the lingering crisis in the Senate is for the party to ask him to step down stressing that the people of Kwara were disappointed how things turn out in the Senate.
He wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate Saraki, especially his tenure as state governor of Kwara state.
Awoyale said: “We implore the EFCC to look into the financial books of Kwara State between 2001 and 2015. Within that period over N500 billion was received in form of monthly allocation by the state government, but there is nothing on the ground to show for it. Workers and pensioners are being owed. No new projects were undertaken and old ones were even abandoned. Kwara State is bleeding. The EFCC and the ICPC should send their investigators to the state. I have nothing personal against Saraki. I’m only speaking out because of my love for Kwara State. I’m interested in the collective interests of our people. We have to think of the coming generations.”
Recall, the emissary sent by the Senate president to beg party leadership to forgive and forget the role he played in the Senate leadership was turned down by the party’s leaders that were invited. The Saraki’s team that met with some selected APC leaders were Senators, Adamu Aliero, Danjuma Goje, Kabiru Gaya and Abdullahi Adamu.
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